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Iron meteorite (IAB-MG)
175 mm x 109 mm x 63 mm
2841 grams
The Campo del Cielo meteorite fell 4800 years ago in what is now Argentina. Its fireball was so bright that stories about it passed from one generation to another. When Spaniards arrived at the place, they were told by the locals that the sky had fallen. They had been using that piece of the sky to make their weapons and tools. It is classified as an iron meteorite and hence it comes from the core of asteroids that were destroyed by impacts with other bodies. It is an alloy of iron-nickel mainly although it contains other trace elements like iridium.
This attractive individual specimen has a very unique shape.
