Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

Iron meteorites are 3.5 times as heavy as a typical Earth rock. Stony meteorites are about one and half times as heavy. But a chunk of slag, a byproduct of industry, is heavy as well, and way more ...

Scientists have discovered the origin of a rare iron meteorite that fell to Earth in 2020. It's the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit.

An ancient iron arrowhead found near Lake Biel in Switzerland, dating back to the Bronze Ages, was likely made of iron that originated from a meteorite, researchers participating in a study by the ...

A bracelet and possible sword pommel found in a 3,000-year-old treasure hoard were forged from meteoritic iron, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the pieces. In other words ...

Using iron meteorite in the ancient world and prehistoric era isn't unprecedented. For example, researchers found an iron arrowhead in Switzerland and determined it was made 3,000 years ago from ...

Scientists discover 3,000-year-old arrowhead made of ‘alien’ iron. Ancient Estonian meteorite was likely source for metal in arrowhead, scientists say . Vishwam Sankaran.

Not what Sci-fi writers had in mind when dreaming up extra-terrestrial projectiles. Researchers found that a 3,000-year-old arrowhead found in Switzerland was actually comprised of meteorite, provi… ...

Reading the certificate listing the rock’s components–92% iron, 7% nickel, 0,5% cobalt, and a sprinkle of iridium—he imagined a meteorite hurtling through the atmosphere.

Iron meteorites are believed to be fragments of molten metallic cores at the heart of planetesimals, small bodies that existed around 4.5 billion years ago.