Lot 1441
22.5 Pound Campo del Cielo Meteorite. This large 6.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 inch, 22.5 pound Campo del Cielo iron-nickel meteorite has an aesthetic shape resembling a miniature asteroid with a huge regmaglypt on one side along with many other smaller well-defined regmaglypts that formed when the meteor passed through Earth's atmosphere. First recorded by the Spanish in 1576, the huge fall of Campo del Cielo iron-nickel meteorites occurred up to thousands of years before. The Campo field has been mostly explored and the price of quality Campos is rising dramatically as new specimens are getting to be very difficult to locate and demand for meteorites has been steadily increasing. A 5 pound Campo del Cielo meteorite sold for over $3,000 in a New York auction in September 2007.
Add $25.00 for domestic shipping.
Estimated Value $1,750 - 2,500.
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