Investigations on five iron meteorites

In the present paper, we report an analysis of five iron meteorites belonging to the private collection of the mineralogy museum of the University of Parma (Italy). The collection is made up of eighteen samples, collected over two centuries. Up to now, they have never been studied by spectroscopical techniques and their classification was estimated on the basis of morphological inspection. Electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and Mossbauer spectroscopy (MS) have been used to analyse the samples.