Stony Iron Meteorite Detail

Detail of inner surface of pallasite. At the boundary of the asteroid's nickel-iron core and olivine mantle, the two materials comingle. This meteorite may have been released from its asteroid interior by a destructive collision with another asteroid. Photo: Ron Hipschman.

Meteorite samples courtesy of the California Academy of Sciences .

 

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