NEW! Iron (nickel iron) Meteorites - Campo del Cielo & Canyon Diablo: Famous meteorites
Iron meteorites are among some of the most rare on earth. only about 5% of all meteorites that fall to earth are irons. That's not much considering meteorites are rare to begin with. Scientists believe that iron meteorites are literally at the "core" of planet building in our universe, and could be how the earth and for that matter ALL planets were formed. Read this article on "How To Make A Planet" by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Iron meteorites are made of a nickel iron alloy, and many were made into tools and weapons for ancient peoples. Even more amazing than that, it's theorized that the very pieces of iron meteorites we hold in our hand today are some of the very same nickel iron material that helped form our planet. Is it possible that the meteorites for sale on this page could possibly have been floating around our solar system for millions of years? Coule any of these meteorites that have rocketed through our atmosphere and crashed into our planet 10s of thousands of years ago be a small fragment of a planet? Of course scientists are just a bit closer to proving this theory than proving that Bigfoot exists, but hey... It's possible!