Campo del Cielo meteorite Pendant - 3.7 g - (1)

Campo del Cielo Pendant - Nickel Iron Meteorite.
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Size: 32.7 x 17.4 x 3.2 mm +/-
Weight: 3.7 g.
Locality: Chaco, Grand Chaco Gualamba, Argentina
Find year: 1576 (year of the discovery of the meteorite field)
Classification: Coarse octahedrite of the IAB group
Composition: 92.6% iron, 6.68% nickel, 0.43% cobalt, 0.25% phosphorus, 87 ppm gallium, 407 ppm germanium and 3.6 ppm iridium.

Parts of the Campo-del-Cielo meteorite, an iron meteorite, were first discovered in 1576 in present-day Argentina. A Spanish governor heard reports from indigenous Indians that iron had fallen from the sky. He accordingly dispatched an expedition that brought back several fragments. The locality, a water-scarce plain, bore the fitting name Campo del Cielo (Field of the Sky).
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