Vaporizing Sulfides Make Meteors Structurally Weak

Scientists analyzed what happened when two meteorite fragments were heated up to atmospheric re-entry temperatures and found voids in the samples.

A team of scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign analyzed what happened to two meteor fragments from different meteorites as they were heated up to the temperature experienced during Earth’s re-entry. They found that lucky for life on Earth, the heating vaporized a particular type of…