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LOT 2023
Natural History - Campo Del Cielo Meteorite
FELL 6000-5000 YEARS B.P.
1 3/4 in. (76 grams, 44 mm).
A nickel iron (IAB) Campo del Cielo meteorite, composition 92.9% iron, 6.7% nickel. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceDiscovered 1576 A.D., Chaco Province, Argentina.
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
See Graham, Bevan and Hutchison, Catalogue of Meteorites, Natural History Museum, 1985, p.88, for details of this fall.
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