Meteorites From Inner Solar System Match Up To Earth's Platinum Standard
Friday, October 3, 2008 - 21:21
in Astronomy & Space
Some of the world's rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth's crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of asteroids that underwent significant geological processing in the early Solar System.
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