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iron meteorite
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iron meteorite [′ī·ərn ′mēd·ē·ə‚rīt]
(astronomy)
A type of meteorite that consists mainly of iron and nickel and is several times heavier than any ordinary rock.
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A New Meteoric Iron from Piedade do Bagre, Minas Geraes Brazil,' The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, vol.
The history of the Hoba Meteorite III: known and loved by all .. by Spargo, P.E. / Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
The Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik mounted the first scientific expedition to the area in 1921 and, realising the meteoritic origin of the event, secured government funds for a second trip in 1927 in a quest for valuable meteoric iron.
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