Iron meteorite - Wikipedia
Iron meteorites, also called siderites or ferrous meteorites, are a type of meteorite that consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel alloy known as meteoric iron that usually consists of two …
Iron Meteorites: Origin, Classification, Pictures - Geology.com
Iron meteorites typically consist of approximately 90 to 95% iron, with the remainder comprised of nickel and trace amounts of heavy metals including iridium, gallium and sometimes gold. They …
Iron meteorite | Meteorite Classification, Composition, Structure ...
Iron meteorite, any meteorite consisting mainly of iron, usually combined with small amounts of nickel. When such meteorites, often called irons, fall through the atmosphere, they may …
Types of Meteorites: Iron, Stone, Stony-Iron, Lunar, Martian - Geology.com
Iron Meteorite: A superb 1,363-gram complete iron meteorite from the Sikhote-Alin meteorite shower which occurred in a remote part of eastern Siberia in the winter of 1947. This fine …
Iron Meteorites: Composition, Age, and Origin | Oxford Research ...
Iron meteorites are thought to be samples of metallic cores and pools that formed in diverse small planetary bodies. Their great diversity offers remarkable insights into the formation of asteroids …
Iron meteorites – Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies
Most iron meteorites likely originated in the cores of large asteroids, and are composed almost entirely of nickel-iron alloy, which is also a primary component of the Earth's core. Even …
Meteoric iron - Wikipedia
Meteoric iron, sometimes meteoritic iron, [1] is a native metal and early-universe protoplanetary-disk remnant found in meteorites and made from the elements iron and nickel, mainly in the …
Types of meteorites - Natural History Museum
There are three main groups of meteorite: iron meteorites, stony-iron meteorites and stony meteorites. They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal they contain and what they reveal …
Meteorite - Chondrites, Irons, Stony-Irons | Britannica
6 天之前 · Iron meteorites are principally composed of two nickel-iron minerals, nickel-poor kamacite and nickel-rich taenite. The abundances of those two minerals strongly influence the …
Iron Meteorite - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
An iron meteorite is defined as a type of meteorite that consists mostly of metallic iron, with 5 to 20 wt% Ni, and typically contains inclusions of troilite, schreibersite, chromite, graphite, and …