The stony-irons, the least common of the three main kinds, make up less than 2% of all known meteorites. These meteorites, sometimes known as stony irons, are a kind of meteorite that falls between stony meteorites and iron meteorites. This type of meteorite is from the core-mantle boundary of an ancient planetoid that was smacked apart billions of years ago. Although many include particles of alien nickel-iron as well as chondrules, they resemble terrestrial rocks in many ways. Meteoroids become meteors when they collide with Earth’s atmosphere and the gases surrounding them temporarily light up as “shooting stars.” While most meteors burn up and dissipate in the atmosphere, meteorites are formed when these space rocks hit the Earth’s surface. Stony-iron meteorites are all differentiated, meaning they exhibit indications of modification they are consequently achondrites.

Meteoroids are rocky or metallic objects that circle the sun. The most common form of meteorite is a stone, which was previously part of the crust of asteroids in the Asteroid Belt. Iron meteorites are largely comprised of iron and nickel and were formerly found in the cores of planets or massive asteroids. Meteorites are classified into three primary groups: irons, stones, and stony-irons, which have a huge number of subclasses. Siderolites, or stony-iron meteorites, are meteorites that contain significant concentrations of both rocky materials (silicates) and nickel-iron metal.

Stony iron meteorite