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Stony-irons

As their name implies, the stony-irons are comprised of differentiated igneous silicates plus iron and nickel metal. They are fairly rare (~1% of falls and ~5% of finds) and thus are valuable to scientists as well as collectors. The stony-irons provide a glimpse of the region within a planetary body near the core-mantle boundary where metallic core components have not entirely separated from the silicate mantle.

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