SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Meteorites are classified according to a variety of characteristics, especially mineralogical, petrological, chemical, and isotopic properties.

Detailed explanation-2: -Types of Meteorites More than 60, 000 meteorites have been found on Earth. Scientists have divided these meteorites into three main types: stony, iron, and stony-iron. Each of these types has many sub-groups.

Detailed explanation-3: -Meteorites have traditionally been divided into three broad categories: stony meteorites are rocks, mainly composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites that are largely composed of metallic iron-nickel; and, stony-iron meteorites that contain large amounts of both metallic and rocky material.

Detailed explanation-4: -Meteorites are fragments of rock or metal that fall to Earth from space. They are very rare, but many people find unusual rocks or pieces of metal and wonder if they might have found a meteorite.

Detailed explanation-5: -Are unmelted, stony meteorites that contain between 20% and 80% chondrules, which are glassy, spherical to subspherical droplets, in a fine-grained matrix of the minerals olivine, pyroxene, feldspar and iron-nickel metals.