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The Salta (or Imilac) stony iron meteorite, found in Chile in 1822, shown in a sawed, polished, and etched interior section. Classified as a pallasite, it is composed of dark crystals of the silicate mineral olivine in a spongelike network of nickel-iron alloy.

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