Tag Archive for 'Tetrataenite'

The Mörigen arrowhead. Image credit: Thomas Schüpbach.

2,800-Year-Old Arrowhead Was Made of Meteoritic Iron, Archaeologists Say

Aug 11, 2023 by Natali Anderson

The detection of the cosmogenic isotope aluminum-26; the concentrations of nickel, cobalt, germanium and gallium; and the presence of two minerals called...

Imilac, a pallasite meteorite found in the Atacama Desert, Chile, in 1822. Image credit: Juan Manuel Fluxa / CC BY 2.0.

Meteorites Contain Magnetic Messages from Early Solar System, Say Scientists

Jan 22, 2015 by News Staff

Researchers using the BESSY II synchrotron in Berlin, Germany have captured information stored in ancient meteorites, formed in the early Solar System...