Identification of a genuine meteorite takes a practiced eye, but there are a number of simple tests that can help hopeful rock hounds determine if they have stumbled across a rare space rock, …

Where Do Stone Meteorites Come From? Take a pensive look outside the window of your car while you are driving, or better yet, watch the hills, valleys and plains roll by as you travel on …

Stone Meteorites. This is by far the largest of the three main types. These meteorites look like a rock since they are made of mostly mineral material similar to many rocks originating here on …

To tell if a rock is a meteorite, start by examining its physical features and characteristics. Many meteorites are magnetic due to their iron-nickel content, but there are non-magnetic …

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony …

This guide provides simple at home tests that can help the reader to make a better determination if their rock is truly a space rock, or one of many terrestrial rocks known as meteor-wrongs. …

Some stone meteorites contain small, colorful, grain-like inclusions known as "chondrules." These tiny grains originated in the solar nebula, and therefore pre-date the formation of our planet …

There are iron meteorites, stony meteorites (chondrites and achondrites) and meteorites that are a mixture of the two, stony-iron meteorites (pallasites and mesosiderites). The vast majority of …

Meteorites can not be identified from photos with 100% accuracy, but all of photos below are of things I believe to be meteorites with 50-99% confidence. More than half these photos were …

Stony meteorites are made of rock, sometimes small bits of iron, and are formed from the outer crust of an asteroid or planet. They can look very similar to Earth rocks, so it takes expert eyes …