Wow. I didn't know that meteorites contained things that are this old and valuable to research. I would have assumed that most of the valuable information that could be derived from them would have been destroyed by collisions and such. Are they really as common as you describe them to be in your first sentence?
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Yep, something like 85% of all meteorites that hit Earth are chondrites. That being said, there aren't a huge amount of meteorites total, and they're really hard to find even if you watch them land, so common is a pretty relative term.
Well, yeah. Didn't think about that. Thanks for clarifying.