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5.98" Guadalupe y Calvo Iron Meteorite Slice (245g) - Mexico
This is a 5.98" wide (245.0 grams) piece of the Guadalupe y Calvo iron meteorite, found on a ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1971. Before its recognition as a meteorite in 1990, the ranch used it as a dog bowl. Its total known weight is 58.63 kilograms.
It has been sliced to reveal the fine Neumann lines in its interior.
It has been sliced to reveal the fine Neumann lines in its interior.
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 (Hexahedrite, IIIAB)
LOCATION
Chihuahua, Mexico
SIZE
5.98 x 2.26", 0.24" thick, Weight: 245.0 grams
CATEGORY
ITEM
#247073
