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Meteorite Campo Del Cielo 31.8 Pounds on a Custom Stand. These new Campo del Cielo iron-nickel meteorites have an esthetic shape with its iron-nickel surface covered with desirable regmaglypts (thumbprints) that formed when the meteor passed through Earth’s atmosphere and the troilite in the meteorite melted. This very large 10x9 inch complete meteorite has many small to medium sized regmaglypts scattered all over its surface. First recorded by the Spanish in 1576, the huge fall of Campo del Cielo (Valley of the Sky) iron-nickel meteorites occurred thousands of years before. The best quality Campos such as this splendid specimen were recovered high in the mountains where their surface was not rusted away by ground water. The Campo field has been mostly explored and the price of quality Campos is rising dramatically as new specimens are becoming difficult to locate and demand for meteorites has been steadily increasing. A five pound Campo del Cielo meteorite sold for over $3000 in a New York auction in September, 2007.

This large Campo comes with a custom metal stand and stands on its small end with a very small hole drilled into the bottom that looks something like a regmaglypt. The meteorite is easily removed for study.

Add $30 for domestic shipping.
Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000.

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