Natural History - Campo del Cielo Meteorite

FELL 6000-5000 YEARS B.P.

1 3/4 in. (99 grams, 43 mm).

A nickel iron (IAB) Campo del Cielo meteorite, composition 92.9% iron, 6.7% nickel. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Discovered 1576 A.D., Chaco Province, Argentina.
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Literature

See Graham, Bevan and Hutchison ed., Catalogue of Meteorites, Natural History Museum, 1985, p.88, for details of this fall.

CONDITION

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