NEW FIND! CAMPO DEL CIELO/LAS PALMAS METEORITE 1923 GMS

THE LAS PALMAS METEORITE ONCE THOUGHT TO BE A NEW METEORITE APPEARS THAT IT WILL NEVER BE APPROVED AS ONE BY SCIENTISTS DUE TO THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF THE FIND TO THE CAMPO DEL CIELO STREWN FIELD!!! THE VERY SMALL STREWN FIELD IN WHICH THESE WERE FOUND DOES NOT FOLLOW THE MAIN AXIS OF THE CAMPO DEL CIELO STREWNFIELD BUT INTERSECTS IT WHICH IS ONE OF THE MANY REASONS THAT MANY PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE THAT THIS COULD STILL BE A NEW METEORITE!!!  UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE WE WILL CALL THIS FIND CAMPO DEL CIELO / LAS PALMAS!!!

LAS PALMAS METEORITES WERE FOUND IN A VERY DRY LOCATION AND ARE WELL PRESERVED.  THEY ARE THE HIGHEST QUALITY IRONS I HAVE EVER SEEN. THEY ARE ALL HIGHLY SCULPTED WITH SPECTACULAR SHAPES AND NUMEROUS THUMBPRINTS. THEY WERE FOUND IN A VERY SMALL STREWNFIELD AND THE FIELD HAS NOW BEEN HUNTED OUT AND MOST LIKELY NO MORE WILL EVER BE FOUND.

I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO PURCHASE ALL OF THE REMAINING INVENTORY FROM THE FINDER AND VERY LITTLE WILL BE AVAILABLE. TOTAL KNOWN WEIGHT FOR THIS FIND IS PROBABLY UNDER A 1000 KILOS WHICH IS VERY LITTLE FOR ANY IRON METEORITE FIND.

I AM LEAVING THESE IRONS NATURAL DUE TO THE HIGH DEMAND FOR NATURAL UNCLEANED SPECIMENS BUT I CAN PROFESSIONALLY CLEAN THEM FOR YOU UPON REQUEST AFTER PURCHASE!!

I HAVE VERY LITTLE INVENTORY LEFT SO NOW MAY BE YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO OWN A CAMPO DEL CIELO / LAS PALMAS METEORITE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!!!

MUSEUM QUALITY!!! LARGEST AVAILABLE!!! AMAZING WELL DEFINED THUMBPRINTS THROUGHOUT!!!

NATURAL SPECIMEN FROM THE GROUND WITH GORGEOUS RUSTIC COLORED PATINA!!! NO CLEANING OR RESTORATION PERFORMED!!!

SUPERB SCULPTED INDIVIDUAL!!! UNIQUE SHAPE!!! SEE PHOTOS!!!

SPECIMEN WEIGHT: 1923 GRAMS!!!

Basic Information · Location: Campo del Cielo, Gran Chaco Gualamba, Argentina, about 500 miles north-northwest of Buenos Aries. Latitude 27 degrees 39 minutes South, Longitude 61 degrees 44 minutes West. · Structural Class: Coarse octahedrite, Og, Widmanstatten bandwidth 3.0 ±0.6 mm. · Chemical Class: Group I, 6.68% Ni, 0.43% Co, 0.25% P, 87 ppm Ga, 407 ppm Ge, 3.6 ppm Ir. · Time of Fall: 4,000 to 6,000 years ago

History The first record of the Campo was in 1576. A Spanish governor learned of the iron from the Indians who reportedly believed that it had fallen from heaven. 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). 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. Since the Indians believed that the irons fell from heaven the name may have come from the meteorites. The area is an open brush-covered plain that has little water and no other rocks--very good country in which to locate meteorites.

Structure of the Campo del Cielo

The Campo del Cielo is described as a polycrystalline coarse octahedrite. At 3 mm the Widmanstatten bands are thicker than those at Canyon Diablo or Odessa, but still thin enough to have the same coarse octahedrite classification. The mass was composed of large austenite crystals from 5 to 50 cm in size. On break-up the fragments were cold worked like those at Sikhote-Alin and Gibeon. It has been hypothesized that the original body was tabular in shape and broke up on entry into the atmosphere. Chemistry of the Campo del Cielo The Campo del Cielo is classified in Group I, , 6.68% Ni, 0.43% Co, 0.25% P, 87 ppm Ga, 407 ppm Ge, 3.6 ppm Ir. Of course, almost all of the remaining portion of the meteorite is iron. The important minerals are: · Kamacite--this iron nickel alloy makes about 90 percent of specimens in finger size and width crystals. Neumann bands are common. · Taenite and plessite, the other iron-nickel alloy constituents are found at grain boundaries. · Schreibersite is uncommon. · Troilite is found aggregates with graphite and silicates.