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Campo del Cielo is a nickel-iron meteorite, classified by the width of its Widmanstatten pattern as a course octahedrite. The original huge mass fell approximately 6000 years ago in Argentina, about 500 miles NNW of Buenos Aries. Your specimen is stable and treated with light gun oil. It should require minimum maintenance.

The first record if the Campo del Cielo meteorite was in 1576. A Spanish governor learned of the iron from the Indians, who reportedly beleived that it had fallen from heaven. The governor sent an expedition under Captain de Miraval, who brought back a few pieces of huge iron mass he called Meson de Fierro (large table of iron). The location of the find was the Campo Del Cielo (fild of the sky or heaven), a fitting name for a 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 - good country in which to found meteorites.

Code AUD ($) 350g RS6055 $ 279.91 1 left 385g RS6053 $ 292.86 1 left 402g RS6057 $ 325.19 1 left

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