Lot 867
20.5 Pound Campo del Cielo Iron Nickel Meteorite. This new Campo del Cielo iron-nickel meteorite is large at 9 x 6 ½ X 3 inches weighing 20.5 pounds and has an esthetic shape covered with medium to large sized regmaglypts on one side and many smaller regmaglypts on the other side. Regmagylpts formed when the meteor passed through Earth’s atmosphere and the troilite in the meteorite melted. 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 before. The best quality Campos such as this splendid specimen were recovered high in the mountains where their surface was not rusted away by ground water. The Campo field has been mostly explored and the price of large quality Campos is rising dramatically as new specimens are getting to be very difficult to locate and demand for meteorites has been steadily increasing. Estimate Value $1,500 - UP
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