[2] Trace amounts of gallium and germanium in meteoric iron can be used to distinguish different meteorite types.

[3] Meteoric iron forms a few different structures that can be seen by etching or in thin sections of meteorites.

[8] Many examples of iron working from the Bronze Age have been confirmed to be meteoritic in origin.

[22] Today meteoritic iron is used in niche jewellery and knife production, but most of it is used for research, educational or collecting purposes.

This FeO may be the source of the orange spectrographic bands in the spectrum of the upper atmosphere.