Meteorites, messengers from other planets
The fundamentals of astronomy for beginners
We would be amazed if we could look up at the night sky and see all the rocks flying through space around us. Our Solar System contains billions of them, all orbiting the Sun – like miniature worlds. Occasionally, Earth crosses paths with one of these meteoroids and it burns up in our atmosphere as a meteor or shooting star. But some survive their fiery passage and land on the ground as a charred rock. Most of these are never found, but a few are
