{{Short description|Alloy of iron and nickel found in meteorites}} thumb|'''Plessite''' is the fine-grained material between the lamellae. Kaposfüred iron meteorite, Hungary. '''Plessite''' is a meteorite texture consisting of a fine-grained mixture of the minerals kamacite and taenite found in the octahedrite iron meteorites. It occurs in gaps (its name is derived from the Greek "plythos" meaning "filling"<ref>according to [http://www.mindat.org/min-10964.html Mindat], a mineral database and mineralogical reference website</ref>) between the larger bands of kamacite and taenite which form Widmanstätten patterns.
Many types of plessite exist and vary in formation mechanism and morphology. Some types of plessite as named by Buchwald's "Iron Meteorites" and Massalski's "Speculations about Plessite" are:{{cn|date=October 2019}} *acicular or type I plessite *black or type II plessite *cellular or type III plessite *comb plessite *net plessite *pearlitic plessite *spheroidized plessite
==See also== * Glossary of meteoritics == References == {{Reflist}} *Goldstein, J. I. Michael, J. R., 2006, "The formation of plessite in meteoritic metal", Meteoritics & Planetary Science Vol 41; No. 4, pages 553-570. [http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?2006M%26PS...41..553G&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf Full text online].
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