Campo del Cielo meteorite Iron meteorite - 105 g - (43)

Beautiful collection of 43 pieces Campo del Cielo - iron-nickel meteorite.

Size: 12.6 x 10.4 x 6.4 - 23.2 x 19.1 x 5.8 mm +/-
Weight: 105 g.
Origin: Chaco, Grand Chaco Gualamba, Argentina
Year Found: 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 what is today Argentina. A Spanish governor heard reports from Indigenous Indians that iron had fallen from the sky. He dispatched an expedition that recovered several fragments. The find site, a dry, water-scarce plain, bore the fitting name Campo del Cielo (Field of the Sky).

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