Sentences with phrase «meteorite billions of years old»

Physicist John Remo holds a slice of the Leoville chondrite, a meteorite billions of years old.

Not exact matches

Using a new analytical technique, the team looked at different kinds of chondrite meteorites, a type of primitive meteorite approximately 4.6 billion years old.

One of the meteorites is only about 165 million years old, suggesting that life may have persisted on Mars for billions of years.

In other words, the team reports this week in Science, the 4.565 - billion - year - old meteorites once were part of bodies that were either big enough or hot enough to produce central, molten, metallic cores.

Zita Martins of Imperial College London and her colleagues identified the organic molecules in the 4.6 - billion - year - old Murchison meteorite, a carbon - rich rock that fell to Earth in Australia in 1969.

Radioactive dating indicated that the meteorite is 2.1 billion years old, placing its origin in the middle of a little - understood stage of Martian geologic history known as the Amazonian.

A new detection technique allowed cosmochemist Byeon - Gak Choi and his colleagues from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena to isolate 14 grains from two meteorites thought to be 4.5 billion years old.

u «Bruno D'Argenio, a geologist working for the Italian National Research Council, and Giuseppi Geraci, professor of molecular biology at Naples University, identified and brought back to life extraterrestrial microorganisms lodged inside [a supposedly] 4.5 billion - year - old meteorite kept at Naples» mineralogical museum.»

Alongside these works — as an apt distillation of his ongoing investigation of what he calls «decentralization aesthetics» — Hagen will present a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu that, in 1992 in Peekskill, NY, was struck by a 4.4 billion year old meteorite.