"Allende Meteorite." Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Web. 24 June 2013. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9622, Clarke, Roy S., Jr. interviewee, ...

Scientists from Russia and Germany studied the molecular composition of carbonaceous chondrites – the insoluble organic matter of the Murchison and Allende meteorites This was done in an attempt to ...

NASA research on a meteorite has provided new evidence that the inner planets formed from materials spread far and wide in the early solar system, and not just from nearby matter. Oxygen isotopic ...

The people at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History were nice enough to give a couple members of the Chemistry in Pictures team a behind-the-scenes look at their mineral ...

A slice through an Allende meteorite reveals various spherical particles, known as chondrules. The irregularly shaped "island" left of the center is a calcium-aluminum rich inclusion, or CAI. The ...

Age of Our Solar System Recall Ages derived from Allende meteorite indicate formation of first planetesimals occurred 4,559 +/- 5 Myr ago! Age confirmed by: 1) Other meteorites 2) Lunar rocks 3) Earth ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, ...