 | IRON METEORITES | Hardness | 4-5 | | Color | Steel-gray to black | | Origin | Brenham, Kansas | | Transparency | opaque to slightly translucent | | |
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| 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
The iron found in iron meteorites was one of the earliest sources of usable iron available to humans, before the development of smelting that signaled the beginning of the iron age
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