Campo del Cielo meteorite Pendant - 4.9 g - (1)

Campo del Cielo pendant - iron-nickel meteorite.

Size: 23.6 x 20.1 x 5.6 mm +/-
Weight: 4.9 g.
Find location: Chaco, Gran Chaco Gualamba, Argentina
Find year: 1576 (year of the meteorite field's discovery)
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.

Pieces 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 thus sent out an expedition that recovered several fragments. The site, a semi-arid plain, bore the fitting name Campo del Cielo (Field of the Sky).
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