Sentences with phrase «iron meteorite which»

Not exact matches

The amount of nickel - 60 found in meteorite samples — particularly in comparison to the amount of stable, «ordinary» iron - 56 — can indicate how much iron - 60 was present when the larger parent body from which the meteorite broke off was formed.

An iron and silicate meteorite is thought to resemble the raw material from which the core formed.

This finding was expected because meteorites from Vesta have less iron than the solar nebula from which planetary building blocks formed.

Besides iron meteorites, which were once 1,300 °F, chondrules were once about 3,000 °F.

Figure 3 - An Iron meteorite, a large sample of which can be used to reconstruct the past cosmic ray flux variations.