| The research, published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science, reveals the priceless statue to be a rare ataxite class of meteorite. |
| The research is featured in 20 papers published this week in an issue of the Meteoritical Society's journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science. |
| Against this background, the German physicist Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni began the science of meteoritics in 1794, when he defended the trustworthiness of accounts of falls. |
| All are valuable on Earth because they are rare – a consequence of how the planet formed, said Sara Russell, head of meteoritics at the Natural History Museum. |
| Notkin has written more than 150 published articles on meteoritics, paleontology, adventure travel, history, and the arts, and is the author of three books. |
| The study was published in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science. |
