Meteorites from inner Solar System match up to Earth's platinum standard
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 03:49
in Astronomy & Space
Some of the world's rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth's crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of asteroids that underwent significant geological processing in the early Solar System...
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