Iron and Stony-Iron Meteorites

Without iron and stony-iron meteorites, our chances of ever sampling the deep interior of a differentiated planetary object would be next to nil. Although we live on a planet with a very substantial core, we will never be able to sample it. Fortunately, asteroid collisions provide us with a rich sam...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benedix, Gretchen, Haack, H., McCoy, T.
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Elsevier Science BV 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40791