Meteorite Identification: The Magnet Test. Meteorites are divided into three basic groups: irons, stones, and stony-irons. Practically all meteorites contain a significant amount of extraterrestrial iron and nickel, so the first step in identifying a poss

How To Identify a Meteorite. Hardly a day goes by when we don’t receive emails from people who think they’ve found a meteorite. With this in mind we wrote a chapter in our new book “Meteorites – How To Recognize Visitors From Space” on how to id

Meteorite Identification Tests. Meteorites are the rarest types of rock on Earth. People send thousands of rocks to laboratories each year by individuals thinking that they found a meteorite. At best only one or two of these thousands is actually a rock f