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METEORITE PENDANT

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METEORITE PENDANT

METEORITE PENDANT supported nicely a woven net pouch with adjustable necklace.  A truly unique gift for yourself or someone good.  Bling Bling.

Who doesn’t love meteorites?!  Amazing little chunks of metal from space.  Humans used these treasures before the Iron Age.  This is a Nickel Iron rough Octahedrite meteorite, classification IAB.  There is much information available from this particular meteorite fall.  Re discovered by the Spanish in the 1500’s.  Believed to have fallen to earth over Argentina between 4000 and 6000 years ago.  Several craters were created in the process.  Many large specimens from this event grace museums around the world.

Location:
Campo del Cielo, Argentina.

Dimensions:
27g (including pouch).

Chemistry: Fe-Ni, Elemental Iron-nickel.

 

Chemistry: Fe-Ni, Elemental Iron-nickel.

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METEORITE PENDANTMETEORITE PENDANT

METEORITE PENDANT supported nicely a woven net pouch with adjustable necklace.  A truly unique gift for yourself or someone good.  Bling Bling.

Who doesn’t love meteorites?!  Amazing little chunks of metal from space.  Humans used these treasures before the Iron Age.  This is a Nickel Iron rough Octahedrite meteorite, classification IAB.  There is much information available from this particular meteorite fall.  Re discovered by the Spanish in the 1500’s.  Believed to have fallen to earth over Argentina between 4000 and 6000 years ago.  Several craters were created in the process.  Many large specimens from this event grace museums around the world.

Location:
Campo del Cielo, Argentina.

Dimensions:
27g (including pouch).

Elemental Iron-nickel:
Fe-Ni.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo houses a Meteoric Iron Knife from King Tutankhamun’s Tomb.  Ancient Man would have thought Meteorites to be a gift from the skies.  Man made weapons like swords, knives, spears and arrow heads from meteorites.  Found in the form of meteorites that have impacted the Earth’s surface.

A few rare terrestrial gabbros and sulfide deposits do contain elemental iron-nickel deposits, these are the only truly native iron-nickel.  The two elements are combined with 6% to 75% nickel.

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