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Campo del Cielo 445g Individual "The Owl"
[Item #S23]
The first find of Campo del Cielo was in 1576 in Campo del Cielo Argentina. Pieces of this meteorite are still being discovered today. It is a polycrystalline coarse octahedrite with many nice large regmaglypts [thumbprints] and a slightly rusty black fusion crust.
It's chemical makeup is below;
- Kamacite--an iron nickel alloy which makes up about 90 percent of specimens in finger size and width crystals. Neumann bands are common.
- Taenite and plessite, the other iron-nickel alloy constituents are found at grain boundaries.
- Troilite is found aggregates with graphite and silicates.
- Schreibersite is uncommon.
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