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LOT 1985
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.
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