Why Out in space there is no magnetic iron?

Answer 1

This is an interesting question. Part of its interest is why you would ask it? There is not a lot of iron in space. Most of the stars and planets are made of hydrogen, with a little bit of other light elements. Asteroids have a lot of iron. We know from the study of meteorite samples that this iron is magnetized, but not strongly magetized. The scientists who study magnetism in meteorites tend to concentrate on the magnetism of the other, non-iron elements in the meteorites, because it is thought that the residual magnetism in the iron is difficult to interperet in terms of the history of the meteoritic material.

There is no way we would know about any other solid iron material in the universe---it is not observable by any existing astronomical technique, and so there is no way we can know anything about it. Iron atoms can be seen in dense hot plasmas, but those iron atoms cannot be feromagnetic in the sense you mean.

The surface of neutron stars has a crust of normal matter. It is speculated that much of it may be very highly magnetized iron. If so, there would likely be much more magnetic iron on a single neutron star than in the whole Earth.

Answer 2

Anything that is naturally magnetic (and solid) on Earth formed in the presence of a magnetic field (namely, Earth's magnetic field). A chunk of iron from an asteroid, however, formed where there was no magnetic field, and so it will not be magnetic.

You may want to do a search on "magnitism" or "permanent magnets" to get more info on how magnetism works.

Answer 3

There is. It's just not as highly magnetized as a man-made magnet. Metals such as iron are magnetized when they are heated, struck with a heavy object, or had an electric current run through them.

Answer 4

because it has not come in contact with any body that is magnatized like any other planet.