pallasiten.

1863 N. S. Maskelyne in London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 25 49 I propose calling..the intermediate varieties (including the Pallasites of Rose), in which the iron is continuous and associated with silicate, by the term Aërosiderolites or Siderolites.

1868 Geol. Mag. 5 78 The arrangement of the meteorites in the museum of Berlin University, by M. G. Rose, is based on their mineral character, and forms two divisions—the metallic and the stony meteorites, the first containing meteoric iron and the Pallasite, the second the Chondrites, Howardites, [etc.].

1929 G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky i. v. 77 Beyond this would be a zone in which these same elements occur, partly metallic and partly in the form of oxide compounds of magnesium, silicon, sodium, aluminum, and calcium..comparable to meteorites of the pallasite type.

1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 134/2 This led to the speculation that ancient peridots were extraterrestrial, extracted from the meteorites known as pallasites.

1995 Focus Aug. 56/4 (caption) His finest trophy is the Imilac pallasite, a rare stony-iron containing pockets of olivine.