Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Meteorite falls are often observed as bright streaks across the sky ... In a practical sense, this allows researchers to use radar data to map out a “strewn field”—the area on the ground where ...

"Like the first cartographers who traced the outline of Australia, our map reveals a continent of discoveries still ahead ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.