MUSEUM QUALITY! LOTS OF THUMBPRINTS! BEST NEW CAMPO/LAS PALMAS METEORITE 407 GMS

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CAMPO DEL CIELO / LAS PALMAS WAS RECOVERED FROM A SMALL STREWNFIELD MILES AWAY FROM THE KNOWN CAMPO FIELDS. ONLY A FEW HUNDRED KIOS WERE FOUND. MANY THINK THIS TO BE A DIFFERENT IRON METEORITE FROM CAMPO DUE TO ITS DISTINCT FEATURES, PRESERVATION AND THE LOCATION OF THE FIND.
ANY NEW IRON FOUND IN PROXIMITY TO THE CAMPO FIELDS HAS NO CHANCE OF BEING CLASSIFIED AS A NEW IRON METEORITE AS LONG AS THE COMPOSITION IS SIMILAR. WE CHOOSE TO CALL THESE VERY SPECIAL IRONS CAMPO DEL CIELO / LAS PALMAS.
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THIS METEORITE IS ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! NATURAL PATINA!!! CARVED & SCULPTED WITH A MANY WELL DEFINED THUMBPRINTS!!! CHECK IT OUT!!!
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QUALITY LIKE THIS HAS NOT COME OUT OF THE FIELDS FOR YEARS!!!
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SPECIMEN WEIGHT: 407 GRAMS!!!
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YOU ARE BIDDING ON ONE MAGNIFICENT QUALITY NEW CAMPO WITH SPECTACULAR WELL DEFINED THUMBPRINTING. THIS NEW CAMPO HAS A LOT OF CHARACTER AND DISPLAYS PERFECTLY IN SEVERAL POSITIONS. RECOVERED FROM A HIGHER AND DRIER STREWNFIELD KNOWN FOR ITS SUPERIOR QUALITY AND GREAT STABILITY. DONT MISS OUT ON YOUR CHANCE TO OWN THIS SPECTACULAR SPECIMEN. PRICED TO SELL SO BUY IT NOW AND TAKE IT HOME. MAKES A BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY PIECE FOR YOUR HOME.
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Basic Information · Location: Campo del Cielo, Gran Chaco Gualamba, Argentina, about 500 miles north-northwest of Buenos Aries. Latitude 27 degrees 39 minutes South, Longitude 61 degrees 44 minutes West. · Structural Class: Coarse octahedrite, Og, Widmanstatten bandwidth 3.0 ±0.6 mm. · Chemical Class: Group I, 6.68% Ni, 0.43% Co, 0.25% P, 87 ppm Ga, 407 ppm Ge, 3.6 ppm Ir. · Time of Fall: 4,000 to 6,000 years ago
History The first record of the Campo was in 1576. A Spanish governor learned of the iron from the Indians who reportedly believed that it had fallen from heaven. The governor sent an expedition under the command of one Captain de Miraval who brought back a few pieces of a huge iron mass he called Meson de Fierro (large table of iron). The location of the find was the Campo del Cielo (field of the sky or heaven), a fitting name for the location of a meteorite. Since the Indians believed that the irons fell from heaven the name may have come from the meteorites. The area is an open brush-covered plain that has little water and no other rocks--very good country in which to locate meteorites.
Structure of the Campo del Cielo
The Campo del Cielo is described as a polycrystalline coarse octahedrite. At 3 mm the Widmanstatten bands are thicker than those at Canyon Diablo or Odessa, but still thin enough to have the same coarse octahedrite classification. The mass was composed of large austenite crystals from 5 to 50 cm in size. On break-up the fragments were cold worked like those at Sikhote-Alin and Gibeon. It has been hypothesized that the original body was tabular in shape and broke up on entry into the atmosphere. Chemistry of the Campo del Cielo The Campo del Cielo is classified in Group I, , 6.68% Ni, 0.43% Co, 0.25% P, 87 ppm Ga, 407 ppm Ge, 3.6 ppm Ir. Of course, almost all of the remaining portion of the meteorite is iron. The important minerals are: · Kamacite--this iron nickel alloy makes 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. · Schreibersite is uncommon. · Troilite is found aggregates with graphite and silicates.
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