What does CC stand for?

Carbonaceous Chondrite (meteorites)

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Sediments from the crater indicate that the impactor must have been a carbonaceous chondrite, an especially primitive meteorite.

Killer collision: dino demise traces to asteroid-family breakup

There's carbonaceous chondrite, meteorites with little white specks that, at 3.

AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD EXHIBIT ON METEORITES LANDS AT BURKE

Honorary mention goes to Matt Izawa from the University of Western Ontario, advised by Associate Professors Penelope King and Roberta Flemming on his research on "Investigation of the Tagish Lake Carbonaceous Chondrite Using X-ray Microdiffraction.

Bruker AXS Announces Two $5,000 X-ray Diffraction Scholarships at ...

Both are carbonaceous chondrites, a rare meteorite type that contains much organic material.

Buckyballs Can Come from Outer Space

Kyte reports that the newfound rock has characteristics similar to a class of meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites, fine-grained carbon-rich rocks peppered with little balls of silica-rich minerals, such as olivine.

Chunk of Death-Dealing Asteroid Found

Using sensitive analytical techniques, the researchers extracted and studied in meticulous detail four amino acids found in the carbon-rich Murchison meteorite, a type known as a carbonaceous chondrite.

Left-handed excess in meteorite molecules

They deduced that, early in the solar system's existence, the ratio of aluminum-26 to its stable sister isotope, aluminum-27, had been the same in ordinary chondrites as in the much rarer carbonaceous chondrites.

Aluminum emerges as early timekeeper

Finally, Hunten suggests that Jupiter truly is dry and its core was built from a class of primitive me teorites, carbonaceous chondrites, that contain little water.

Revised Galileo results pose Jovian puzzle