carbonaceous
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To confidently identify such candidates, the researchers emphasize the importance of detailed chemical studies of carbonaceous chondrites combined with new sample return missions.
From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025
Trigo-Rodríguez highlights that water rich carbonaceous asteroids may be especially attractive targets.
From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025
The Winchcombe meteorite belongs to a rare class of rocks known as carbonaceous chondrites.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2024
What’s more, studies of light reflected from Psyche suggest it isn’t purely metal but probably contains some carbonaceous material, a typical asteroid ingredient, and rocky silicate minerals.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 13, 2023
Remains of these fishes occur in layers containing marine invertebrates, as well as in those containing plant remains and vertebrate skeletal parts, and in those nearly completely composed of dark carbonaceous material.
From A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Echols, Joan
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