Lot 655
Meteorite Campo Del Cielo 7 Pounds. Aesthetically- pleasing 5.5 x 4 x 2 inch, 7 pound new Campo del Cielo iron-nickel meteorite with several distinct regmaglypts (thumbprints) formed when the meteor passed through Earth’s atmosphere and the troilite (iron sulfide) in the meteorite melted before the meteorite struck the earth. First recorded by the Spanish in 1576, the huge fall of Campo del Cielo (Valley of the Sky) iron-nickel meteorites occurred thousands of years earlier in Argentina. This desk sized iron-nickel meteorite would make an "out of this world" paperweight. Estimate $550 - 750
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