Meteorites

<a href=”meteorites.html#Iron Meteorites”>Iron Meteorites</a> are those made of nickel-iron. These may represent the material from the core of a large body or several bodies in space.

<a href=”meteorites.html#Chondrite Meteorites”>Chondrite Meteorites</a> are stony-meteorites with small spherical structures called chondrules.

<a href=”meteorites.html#Carbonaceous Chondrite Meteorites”>Carbonaceous Chondrite Meteorites</a> make up a small percentage of all stony-meteorites and are a type of chondritic meteorite which contains carbon in the form of organic compounds.

<a href=”meteorites.html#Achondrite Meteorites”>Achondrite Meteorites</a> are stony-meteorites that have no chondrules. They may have been heated or smashed by impacts or formed on a larger body where gravity prevented the formation of spherical structures and formed layers instead.

<a href=”meteorites.html#Moon Rocks – Lunar Meteorites”>Lunar Meteorites</a> and <a href=”meteorites.html#Mars Rocks – Martian Meteorites”>Martian Meteorites</a> are very rare and have reached Earth because of impacts on the Moon or Mars which have sent a small amount of material out into space eventually reaching our planet as meteorites.

<a href=”meteorites.html#Stony-Iron Meteorites”>Stony-Iron Meteorites</a> are made up by the Pallasites which have crystals of olivine mixed with nickel-iron and the Mesosiderites which have silicate minerals mixed with the nickel-iron.

<a href=”meteorites.html#Unclassified Meteorites”>Unclassified Meteorites</a> are authentic meteorites which have not been sent to researchers for classification. Scientists do not have the capacity or scientific need to classify every meteorite that has been found.