Rare meteorite proves our solar system almost had an extra planet

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

Rare meteorite provides evidence of giant early planet

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing ...
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A Long-Lost Planet? Very Rare Meteorite Suggests A Rocky World In Our Solar System That Disappeared

The lost planet might have had a radius of 1,800 kilometers (1,118 miles), comparable to the Moon, if not approaching the ...

Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...
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Cantonment man finds rare meteorite after fireball

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the darkened morning hours of July 6 when Christian Varady saw the fireball falling from the sky, a momentary streak of ...
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A likely meteor blazed across Northeast skies Tuesday, but did it touch the ground to become a rare meteorite?

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, residents along the Northeast looked up to see a fiery trail across the sky, likely a meteor flashing through the Earth's atmosphere. It's unclear whether the fireball seen ...

Just outside Jupiter, one region may have forged six meteorite parent bodies

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust ...