Type IIE Iron Meteorite (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Type IIE Iron Meteorite

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X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source helped scientists to establish that the parent planetesimal of rare meteorites, like the one shown here, had a molten core, a solid crust, and a magnetic field similar in strength to the Earth's magnetic field.

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Carl Agee/Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico; background edited by MIT News

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