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What are the two types of meteorites that hit earth?

Stony and iron meteorites hit earth.


What are the two types of stony meteorites?

Chondrites and Achondrites


What are the two types of stony-iron meteorites?

iron and nickel


What are the two most abundant element in the earths core?

Although we can not see them, we know from certain meteorites (Nickel/Iron meteorites) and from the density measurements of the rocks we see at the Earth's surface compared to the mass of the whole planet that the two most abundant elements in the Earth's core must be Iron and Nickel. Iron being the predominant of the two.


Is a meteorite always magnetic?

No. Nickel-iron meteorites are perhaps the most common of all those recovered.


Which two types of rock can form on the Earth's surface?

Some types of igneous and sedimentary rocks can form on Earth's surface.


What are the two types of cells on earth?

Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes


What two objects produce meteorites?

comets and asteroids


Are all meteorites magnetic?

Meteorites fall into two classes, stony and iron. There is a belt of meteoric material near Mars, from which many of our meteorites come. Perhaps the debris from a broken planet? The iron meteorites, in fact iron-nickel mixtures, are magnetic. the stony meteorites are not. Have a look for Bode's Law in a reference source.


What are two forces that are continually shaping the Earth's landforms?

The two types are erosion


What two types of crusts on earth are there?

The Earth's crust is broken up into a large pieces, which are called plates. Two types of plates are oceanic and continental


What are the two types of movenments of the earth called?

rotation and revolution