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Meteoric iron
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<p>Meteoric iron, sometimes meteoritic iron, is a <a href="/facts/Native_metal/gsbV9m3h">native metal</a> and <a href="/facts/Primitive_rock/h7sogSGV">early-universe protoplanetary-disk remnant</a> found in <a href="/facts/Meteorites/NsmHlBlX">meteorites</a> and made from the elements <a href="/facts/Iron/QK1JYy8E">iron</a> and <a href="/facts/Nickel/KwMCHYRP">nickel</a>, mainly in the form of the <a href="/facts/Mineral/LkUFbNmv">mineral</a> phases <a href="/facts/Kamacite/9JHfxXsL">kamacite</a> and <a href="/facts/Taenite/jwevbgJw">taenite</a>. Meteoric iron makes up the bulk of <a href="/facts/Iron_meteorite/rjgT7fec">iron meteorites</a> but is also found in other meteorites. Apart from minor amounts of <a href="/facts/Telluric_iron/xYgwowV9">telluric iron</a>, meteoric iron is the only naturally occurring native metal of the element iron (in metallic form rather than in an <a href="/facts/Ore/kgc9DssX">ore</a>) on the Earth's surface. </p>