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Meteorite

Name

Meteorite

Chemistry

You get iron meteorites and iron/nickel meteorites and also stone meteorites

Uses

In the past they were used as a source of iron to make primitive tools with

Color-

Light gray, gray-green, black

Fracture

Uneven

Luster

Dull, metallic, rare vitreous

Gibeon Meteorites were discovered in the 1830's in Namibia.

Meteorites are igneousrocks formed in space.

They consist of various minerals and their chemical composition differs greatly.

Typical rock-forming minerals in meteorites are olivine, pyroxenes,

Fe and Ni alloys and sulfides, rarely you might find organic matte also.

Meteorites fall  into four main groups, according to metallic iron and silicate component:  iron mereorites, Siderolite, Chondrite, Achondrite.

Radiometric dating places the age of crystallization of the iron-nickel metal in the Gibeon at 4 billion years.

 

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