Origin Of 'Mercury' Meteorite Still Puzzles Scientists - NPR
2013年4月11日 · A strange green rock discovered in Morocco last year was hailed by the press as the first meteorite from Mercury. But scientists who've been puzzling over the stone ever since say the...
Mercury meteorite among world's rarest rocks - Phys.org
2013年11月26日 · (Phys.org) —Talk about a precious stone—the largest piece of the only known meteorite from the planet Mercury has found its way to Yale, where it is now on display at the Peabody Museum of...
Mercury Meteor - Wikipedia
The Mercury Meteor is an automobile that was produced by Mercury from the 1961 to 1963 model years. Adopting its nameplate from the namesake Ford of Canada brand, the Meteor was introduced as the base-trim full-size Mercury sedan, while the compact Mercury Comet shared a naming convention associated with the ongoing Space Race of the early 1960s.
Green Meteorite May Be from Mercury, a First - Space.com
2013年3月28日 · A strange, green meteorite called NWA 7325 may actually the first piece of Mercury ever found on Earth. Find out where the ancient meteorite was found.
Northwest Africa 7325 - Wikipedia
Northwest Africa 7325, also known as NWA 7325, is a unique igneous meteorite which crystallized as a basalt on a large asteroid or planetesimal approximately 4.56 billion years ago. It is classified as an ungrouped achondrite, and is notable for its green fusion crust and high-magnesium/low-iron composition.
From Mercury to Morocco, and onward to Yale: a meteorite’s tale
2013年11月25日 · Talk about a precious stone — the largest piece of the only known meteorite from the planet Mercury has found its way to Yale, where it is now on display at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Known as NWA 7325, the fist-size, greenish space rock is a rarity among rarities: there just aren’t many verified planetary meteorites.
Meteorite from Mercury Lands in the Peabody
A new exhibit, entitled “From Mercury to Earth? A Meteorite Like No Other,” features a green-tinted fragment that is touted as part of the first meteorite on Earth to come from Mercury. Roughly the size of a golf ball, the portion on display was discovered in Morocco in 2012 as a part of 35 meteorite samples collectively known as NWA 7325.
In the present study, we focus on the putative mineralogy of mercurian meteorites using data obtained from the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft, which has provided us with our first quantitative constraints on the geochemistry of planet Mercury.
LPSC 2013: Do we have a meteorite from Mercury? - The Planetary Society
2013年3月21日 · Mercury is the only planet-sized rocky body left in the solar system that we don't know of any meteorites from yet. So either NWA 7325 is from Mercury or it's from some since-destroyed biggish protoplanet from which we don't have any other meteorites. The chemistry is not a perfect match.
known meteorite from the planet Mercury has found its way to Yale, where it is now on display at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Known as NWA 7325, the fist-size, greenish space rock is...