Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters ...

Meteoritics is the study of meteorites — solid parts of asteroids or comets that have landed on another celestial body, notably (but not limited to) the Earth. Measuring the composition of ...

Charles Shearer, a research scientist in the Institute of Meteoritics (IOM) and research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) at UNM, was the lead author, along with ...

We are exploring the origins and evolution of the Sun, Moon, planets, asteroids and comets. The Museum houses one of the world's finest collections of meteorites, with around 5,000 individual pieces ...