Meteorite measurements suggest that magnetism played a central role in mass transport the early solar system.

The preatmospheric mass of the Tagish Lake meteoroid was about 200,000 kilograms. Its calculated orbit indicates affinity to the Apollo asteroids with a semimajor axis in the middle of the asteroid belt, consistent with a linkage to low-albedo C, D, and P type asteroids. The mineralogy, oxygen isotope, and bulk chemical composition of recovered samples of the Tagish Lake meteorite are intermedi...

Multiple chondritic meteorite fragments have been found in two sedimentary rock samples from an end-Permian bed at Graphite Peak in Antarctica. The Ni/Fe, Co/Ni, and P/Fe ratios in metal grains; the Fe/Mg and Mn/Fe ratios in olivine and pyroxene; and the chemistry of Fe-, Ni-, P-, and S-bearing oxide in the meteorite fragments are typical of CM-type chondritic meteorites. In one sample, the met...

CM chondrites are aqueously altered rocks that contain ~9 wt.% H2O (indigenous water) [1] bound in phyllosilicates [2-4]; also present in the matrix are serpentinetochilinite intergrowths (PCP), pentlandite, and Ni-bearing pyrrhotite. The extent of alteration varies from meteorite to meteorite. Some CM chondrites contain well-delineated metallic-Fe-Ni-bearing, olivineand pyroxene-rich chondrule...