A meteorite mineral is a mineral found chiefly or exclusively within meteorites or meteorite-derived material.[citation needed] This is a list of those minerals, excluding minerals also commonly found in terrestrial rocks. As of 1997 there were approximately 295 mineral species which have been identified in meteorites.[1]
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A meteoritemineral is a mineral found chiefly or exclusively within meteorites or meteorite-derived material.[citation needed] This is a listof those...
This is a listofminerals which have Wikipedia articles. Minerals are distinguished by various chemical and physical properties. Differences in chemical...
composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites that are largely composed of ferronickel; and stony-iron meteorites that contain large amounts of both metallic...
as a meteorite. As of September 2020[update], 277 meteorites had been classified as Martian, less than half a percent of the 72,000 meteorites that have...
Nakhla is a Martian meteorite which fell in Egypt in 1911. It was the first meteorite reported from Egypt, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes...
zangboite. Glossary ofmeteoriticsListofmineralsListofminerals named after people Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical...
cementite. Glossary ofmeteoriticsListofmineralsListofminerals named after people Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical...
consists of refractory minerals which survived the collapse of the solar nebula and the subsequent formation of planetesimals. To meteorite researchers...
alternative source of reduced phosphorus species for the synthesis of early biomolecules. Glossary ofmeteoriticsListofmineralsListofminerals named after...
Mg)Al12O19)) an alteration mineral from the Allende meteorite. Hibonites were among the first minerals to form as the disk of gas and dust swirling around...
devices. Any other meteorite is called a "find". There are more than 1,300 documented falls listed in widely used databases, most of which have specimens...
Kamacite is an alloy of iron and nickel, which is found on Earth only in meteorites. According to the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) it...
is a mineral found in a single meteorite on Earth, called the Uakit meteorite, that fell in the Bauntovsky Evenkiysky District, in Republic of Buryatia...
couple of different ways to organize different chondrules into textural types according to their appearance. Glossary ofmeteoriticsListofmeteorite minerals...
Meteorite, officially named Willamette and originally known as Tomanowos by the Clackamas Chinook Native American tribe, is an iron-nickel meteorite found...
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of chondritic meteorites comprising at least 8 known groups and many ungrouped meteorites. They include some of the most primitive known meteorites....
The Cape York meteorite, also known as the Innaanganeq meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a medium octahedrite in chemical...
material of type CR2, but also contains fragments of other types, such as C1, CM1, and C3. Of the nearly 60 minerals found in the meteorite, several have...
Martian meteorite believed to be the second oldest yet discovered. It is estimated to be two billion years old and contains the most water of any Martian...
ocean's equivalent of water in the mantle transition zone from 410 to 660 km deep. This mineral was first identified in the Tenham meteorite in 1969, and is...
a nickel silicide mineral. It is found in extremely silicon-rich meteorites. The type material is housed at the National Museum of Natural History in...
described in 1970 from the Coorara Meteoriteof Western Australia and has been reported from various other meteorites in which majorite is thought to result...
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Diablo meteorite was used because it is both large and representative of a particularly rare type ofmeteorite that contains sulfide minerals (particularly...
In meteoritics, a meteorite classification system attempts to group similar meteorites and allows scientists to communicate with a standardized terminology...
Wadsleyite is an orthorhombic mineral with the formula β-(Mg,Fe)2SiO4. It was first found in nature in the Peace River meteorite from Alberta, Canada. It is...
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