By comparing lunar samples with samples of asteroids and comets ... curators as 'the most important meteorite to have fallen in 100 years', the Tissint Martian meteorite was witnessed falling to Earth ...

I have worked with samples ranging from lunar rocks returned by the Apollo astronauts, Martian meteorites, and samples from the Vredefort impact basin in South Africa. In the next decade, multiple ...

Yet scientists are still unsure exactly when a Mars-size meteorite slammed into early Earth, causing our natural satellite to form from the debris. Lunar rock samples suggest the event happened 4. ...