- Origin: Argentina
- Size: H6cm W19cm D10cm
- Description: The present meteorite is a modestly sized yet visually distinctive example. Surprisingly dense, it exhibits the finely stippled surface character of select Campo del Cielo meteorites. The deep charcoal patina with platinum-hued highlights follows the contours of its regmaglypts, small thumbprint-like indentations that result from a meteorite’s fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere.
- Additional information:
- Campo del Cielo (“Valley of the Sky”) meteorites are the result of a cataclysmic collision between two asteroids traveling at cosmic velocity in interplanetary space. The fragments of the target asteroid were sent on a collision course with Earth.
- The Campo del Cielo mass slammed into Earth’s atmosphere more than 4,000 years ago; the explosive fragmentation that followed resulted in thousands of meteorites raining to the ground in northeastern Argentina. The larger meteorites struck at such high velocity that an array of at least 26 impact craters formed, the largest, a football field across.