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Two years later, the Philippines’ Atomic Energy Commission contributed a siderite, a nickel-iron meteorite.—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023 Scientists found the proto-spider frozen in the mineral siderite (no, not carbonite) in England and used an X-ray version of a CT scan to image it.—Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
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