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Troilite Push‐Out Pit on the Surface of a Freshly‐Fallen Iron Meteorite
Author(s) -
READ WILLIAM F.,
GRIZZLE ELLEN D.,
GRIZZLE WALTER M.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
meteoritics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0026-1114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1967.tb00293.x
Subject(s) - troilite , meteorite , iron meteorite , geology , astrobiology , geochemistry , physics , chondrite
. The surface of the Withrow meteorite shows an unusual pit about two inches in diameter. This is explained as the result of pushing out of a plug of metal by expansion of an underlying troilite nodule.