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Iron meteorite
Iron meteorites
are
meteorites
that consist overwhelmingly of an
iron–nickel alloy
known as
meteoric iron
that usually consists of two
mineral
phases:
kamacite
and
taenite
. Iron meteorites originate from
planetary cores
of
planetesimals
.
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