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1.3" Etched Saint-Aubin Iron Meteorite Slice (33.1 g) - France
This is a 1.3" wide (33.1 grams) piece of the Saint-Aubin iron meteorite Aube, France. It has been nicely cut/etched into a thin slice to display the complex Widmanstätten pattern.
The Saint-Aubin Meteorite
The Saint-Aubin meteorite is a 472-kilogram iron (IIIAB) meteorite that landed in Champagne, France roughly 55,000 years ago. Farmers found five pieces in 1968 as they plowed fields.
Saint-Aubin contains the minerals sarcopsite and graphtonite, two related iron-nickel phosphate minerals, as well as long crystals of schreibersite, an iron-nickel phosphide mineral. It was originally classified as "ungrouped", but more recent work has shown it is a high-nickel, high-gold, low-iridium member of the (IIIAB) group. It often contains well-defined Widmanstätten patterns, and sometimes contains shock features such as Neumann lines, a shock-hatched kamacite structure.
The Saint-Aubin meteorite is a 472-kilogram iron (IIIAB) meteorite that landed in Champagne, France roughly 55,000 years ago. Farmers found five pieces in 1968 as they plowed fields.
Saint-Aubin contains the minerals sarcopsite and graphtonite, two related iron-nickel phosphate minerals, as well as long crystals of schreibersite, an iron-nickel phosphide mineral. It was originally classified as "ungrouped", but more recent work has shown it is a high-nickel, high-gold, low-iridium member of the (IIIAB) group. It often contains well-defined Widmanstätten patterns, and sometimes contains shock features such as Neumann lines, a shock-hatched kamacite structure.
TYPE
Iron (Fine Octahedrite, IIIAB)
LOCATION
Aube, France
SIZE
1.3 x 1.25", .15" thick, Weight: 33.1 grams
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#258384
