iron meteorite

noun

1. a meteorite that is composed mainly of iron and nickel

iron meteorite

1. See under meteorite

Example Sentences

Desch also argued that "all evidence points to this being an iron meteorite, part of a population of natural objects ejected by stellar systems."

From Salon

"Its material strength was twice tougher than an iron meteorite."

From Salon

There is a Gibeon iron meteorite that fell to earth in Namibia.

From BBC

There he pulled off a second escape—this time, an intellectual one—when he joined a virtual poster session last week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston to present research about an iron meteorite recovered in 2021 in Sweden.

From Science Magazine

And the region is also famed as the home of fragments from a massive iron meteorite that weigh in total some 58 tons.

From Science Magazine