"These are the most pristine meteorite samples on the planet right now."

It 'also a small exhibition area in which they are preserved meteorite samples arrived on Earth in various kinds.

Scientists' current understanding of asteroids depends greatly on meteorite samples, but it is very difficult to match up meteorite samples with the exact asteroids from which they came.

He was also interested in gathering micro-organisms and meteorite samples from the ice.

The meteorite samples, however, show a spread from 4.53 to 4.58 billion years ago.

In 1938, Swiss mineralogist Victor Goldschmidt and his colleagues compiled a list of what they called "cosmic abundances" based on their analysis of several terrestrial and meteorite samples.

Potassium-argon dating of the meteorite samples showed that Mars had water on its surface anywhere from 1300 Ma to 650 Ma ago.

Hoover's team used Environmental (ESEM) and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) to analyze the meteorite samples, studying internal surfaces.

These were extracted from a meteorite sample through chemical means, and they are so small that a quadrillion of these fit into a volume smaller than a cubic centimeter.

Klaus pioneered the use of the electron microprobe to study meteorite samples.