A small asteroid crashed into Earth three years ago — and now scientists know where it came from. Researchers have traced the origins of the resulting rare meteorite fragments, which began the ...

Researchers have traced the origins of the resulting rare meteorite fragments, ... “Overall, we classified the material that asteroid 2018 LA contained as being Howardite, ...

Both sets of meteorites were categorized as howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites, which are the only class of meteorites to be traced back to Vesta, according to the American Museum of ...

A new study reveals that these missing pieces may not have been absent from the start but were instead lost during violent ...

The meteorites, known as howardite, eucrite and diogenite meteorites, were viewed through a polarizing microscope, where different minerals appear in different colors.

Motopi Pan belongs to a group of Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenites meteorites, so named due to their composition, that came from Vesta, which is located in the inner part of the asteroid belt between ...

The group of meteorites known as HED (howardite, eucrite, and diogenite) are thought to emanate from Vesta, as their oxygen isotope signatures are the same.

This left a massive impact crater occupying much of Vesta’s southern hemisphere and debris from this event has fallen to Earth as howardite–eucrite–diogenite (HED) meteorites. These have been traced ...

When the meteorite arrived in Turkey, researchers discovered the pieces were of a type called Howardite, one of a more general group called Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenites, or HED.

Meteorites contain a wealth of information about the origins of our solar system, helping us to understand their, and even Earth’s, ... (howardite–eucrite–diogenite).

Both sets of meteorites were categorized as howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites, which are the only class of meteorites to be traced back to Vesta, according to the American Museum of ...