6/17/2023 0 Comments Where to sell a meteoriteIn 1992, American meteorite dealer Robert Haag was arrested by Argentine authorities while transporting a 37 ton meteorite from the area. systematic exploration revealed many more large masses however, the Meson de Fierro remained lost. Later analyses showed that the iron was not meteoritic. A pair of flintlock pistols reportedly made of this material were given to President James Monroe. In the 1800s more smaller irons were found. He left he mass in place and it was not seen again-or was it? A Spanish navy lieutenant excavated one specimen which he believed weighed 14 to 18 tons. The Spanish thought some pieces might be silver ore, but once they tried to process it, they found that it was only iron. The next record of Campo Del Cielo meteorites was about 200 years later in the late 1770s. The area is an open brush-covered plain that has little water and no other rocks-very good country in which to locate meteorites. Since the Indians believed that the irons fell from heaven the name may have come from the meteorites. The location of the find was the Campo del Cielo (field of the sky or heaven), a fitting name for the location of a meteorite. The governor sent an expedition under the command of one Captain de Miraval who brought back a few pieces of a huge iron mass he called Meson de Fierro (large table of iron). A Spanish governor learned of the iron from the Indians who reportedly believed that it had fallen from heaven. The first record of the Campo was in 1576. Size: 22.5mm x 16mm x 14.3mm Approximately ![]() Origin: Santiago Estero, Argentina Structural Classification: Coarse octahedrite, Og, Widmanstatten bandwidth 3.0 0.6 mm Classification: Iron IAB Composition: 92.9% Fe, 6.7% Ni, 0.4% Co Date of Discovery: 1576 Total Weight: Unknown but Estimated at Thousands of Kilograms Fragment of Authentic Campo del Cielo Iron Meteorite from Santiago Estero, Argentina
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