This slice of Canyon Diablo is 15 centimetres across. Iron meteorites, when sliced open and etched with acid, typically show a distinctive criss-cross pattern known as the Widmanstatten pattern. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON)
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