What among the following element is not found in a meteorite?
Important Questions on Stars and the Solar System
Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding meteors?
A. They are also known as shooting stars.
B. If a meteor makes it to Earth it's known as a meteorite.
Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding weathering concerning meteorites?
A. Most meteorites date from the early Solar System and are the oldest extant material on Earth.
B. Analysis of terrestrial weathering due to water, salt, oxygen, etc., is used to quantify the degree of alteration that a meteorite has experienced.
Which of the following is known as to be the largest single meteorite piece ever fall on earth?
Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding meteorite?
A. For geologists, a bolide is a meteorite large enough to create an impact crater.
B. Meteorites vary greatly in size.
Which of the following statements about meteors is/are correct?
Meteorites are meteoroids that enter Earth’s atmosphere, or that of another planet, like Mars, at high speed and burn up.
They are made of ice and dust.
Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding meteorite classification?
A. About % of the meteorites are chondrites.
B. Only about % of meteorites is iron meteorites.
Which of the following is known to be the biggest meteorite to ever hit the earth surface?
