Glossary term: 鐵隕石
Description: 鐵隕石是含有大量鐵和鎳的隕石。它們被認為是小行星核心的一部分，密度很高，重量也很大。儘管鐵隕石只占撞擊地球表面的隕石總數的 5%，但在地球上發現的隕石中卻幾乎有 60% 是鐵隕石。其中一個原因是它們更堅固，不像石隕石那樣容易風化。
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In Other Languages
- 阿拉伯語: النيازك الحديدية
- 孟加拉語: লোহার উল্কাপিণ্ড
- 德語: Eisenmeteoriten
- 英語: Iron Meteorite
- 法語: Météorite ferreuse
- 義大利語: Meteoriti di ferro
- 日語: 隕鉄 (external link)
- 巴西葡萄牙語: Meteoritos ferrosos
- 簡體中文: 铁陨石
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Iron Meteorite
Caption: This iron meteorite was originally found in Harriman, Tennessee, USA and is now held in the collection of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington DC, USA. The total mass of the meteorite was about 30kg. Here we see the interior after the meteorite was cut into pieces.
Iron meteorites are largely composed of an iron-nickel. They also often have a crystalline structure which manifests here as a series of crossing shiny straight lines known as a Widmanstätten pattern. This is thought to have formed as the meteoroid (the object that would eventually fall through the Earth's atmosphere as a meteor and land on the ground as a meteorite) cooled very slowly in the vacuum of space in the early solar system. This led to the growth of this crystalline structure.
Credit: Chuck Sutherland
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