: a nickel-iron meteorite
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Elisabeth M. Hausrath, The Conversation, 6 May 2025
Two years later, the Philippines’ Atomic Energy Commission contributed a siderite, a nickel-iron meteorite.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023
Scientists found the proto-spider frozen in the mineral siderite (no, not carbonite) in England and used an X-ray version of a CT scan to image it.
—Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
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Noun
Here, the rover’s chemistry and mineralogy instrument has discovered lots of the iron-rich carbonate mineral siderite.
—Elisabeth M. Hausrath, The Conversation, 6 May 2025
Two years later, the Philippines’ Atomic Energy Commission contributed a siderite, a nickel-iron meteorite.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023
Scientists found the proto-spider frozen in the mineral siderite (no, not carbonite) in England and used an X-ray version of a CT scan to image it.
—Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
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“Siderite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/siderite. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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