Take, for example, pallasite meteorites – extra-terrestrial ... get interesting – because that’s where we get the stony-iron meteorites (hey, nobody ever accused astronomers of being ...

They are considered some of the most beautiful meteorites. There are two different types of stony-iron meteorites: pallasite and mesosiderite. Pallasites contain big, beautiful olive-green crystals - ...

The olive-green crystals set in lustrous metal are unique to pallasites and so unlike anything on Earth that pallasites were the first rocks to be identified as of extraterrestrial origin.