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Meteoritic Iron from
Campo del Cielo meteorite, Gancedo, Doce de Octubre Department, Chaco Province, Argentina


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:'Meteoritic Iron' (not an IMA approved species)
Comments:Meteorite type "Octaedrita" , Class IAB.
Specimen size: 3.7 x 1.8 x 1.3 cm.
From "Campo del Cielo", 12 de Octubre Department, Province of Chaco, Argentina.
Composition: Fe, Ni, Co, P, Ga, Ge, In.
Habit:cubic
Colour:Iron black to brownish
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kamaciteⓘ1 photo of Meteoritic Iron associated with Kamacite at this locality.
Taeniteⓘ1 photo of Meteoritic Iron associated with Taenite at this locality.
Graphiteⓘ1 photo of Meteoritic Iron associated with Graphite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Meteoritic Iron data
Locality Data:Click here to view Campo del Cielo meteorite, Gancedo, Doce de Octubre Department, Chaco Province, Argentina
Photo GalleryView Gallery (27 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:787571
Long-form Identifier:1:3:787571:7
GUID (UUID V4):457d55b5-808d-41dd-81c9-aee3f1379d1f
References
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Acevedo Centro Austral de Investigaciones CientĂ­ficas Tierra del Fuego Argentina VĂ­ctor Manuel GarcĂ­a...GarcĂ­a Centro Austral de Investigaciones CientĂ­ficas Tierra del Fuego Argentina Maximiliano C. L. Rocca The...The Planetary Society Buenos Aires Argentina There may be instances where the authors have been unable...the Centro Austral de Investigaciones CientĂ­ficas (CADIC) and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂ­ficas...CientĂ­ficas y TecnolĂłgicas (CONICET) of Argentina, the National Geographic/Waitt, and The Planetary Society
Report (volume)
PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1969 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WALTER J. HICKEL, Secretary ...Crater_______________________________________ -----Campo del Cielo Craters----------------------------------Carswell...Belgique Bull. Cl. Sci.-Academie Royale de Belgique, Bulletin de la Classe des Sciences. Brussels, Belgium...Cant. Soc. Geol. France Bull.-Societe Geologique de France, Bulletin. Paris, France. Sveriges Geol. Undersokning...Information Circular. Nashville, Tenn. TISCO-Tata Iron and Steel Co. Jamshedpur, India. u.s. Natl. Aeronautics
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the Renaissance reports of stones, fragments of iron and 'six hundred other things' fallen from the sky...published in 1802 by Edward C. Howard and Jacques-Louis de Bournon. They showed that stones with identical textures...showed that erratic masses of metallic iron and small grains of iron in the stones both contain nickel, so...common origin. Meanwhile, in 1789, Anton-Laurent de Lavoisier had revived the idea of the accretion of...fresh insights on the range of compositions of meteorite parent bodies. By 1860 both of the two main hypotheses
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cosmogenic helium isotopes in iron meteorites Masatake Honda Department of Chemisto'. Collegeof Humanities...prtxluction rates, P, of cosmogenic 3He and 4He in iron meteorites can be described by introducing empirically...data for neon, argon and 45Sc in the G r a n t iron meteorite, Geiss et al. [1] derived a simple relation...production rates and the differences in mass between iron as target and the respective reaction products....reactions in a thick iron target bombarded by 3 GeV protons. According to these studies, in iron meteorites the
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Museum of Natural History meteorite collection DENTON S. EBEL Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences...(e-mail: debel@amnh.org) Abstract: The core meteorite collection of the American Museum of Natural History...find underlying processes unifying disparate meteorite groups in a coherent story of the early solar...museums grew by acquisition of such collections. Meteorite science became important in its own right in concert...display. Finally, the rise of collection-based meteorite science is explored, with concomitant rise in
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PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1966 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary ...Crater---------------------------------------------Campo del Cielo Craters ___ -------------------------------Carolina...bibliography lists 110 features for which origin by meteoritic impact has been suggested and gives a comprehensive...structures was prompted by an increasing interest in meteoritic impact as a factor in the geologic process and...features listed here are universally accepted as meteorite craters. Some indication of the nature of, and
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along the path. THE DETERMINATION OF SILICON IN IRON METEORITES P. L. Beaulieu and C. B. Moore Arizona...State University The levels of silicon found in the iron meteorites are generally so low as to preclude gravimetric...caused by the large amounts of germanium found in iron meteorites, is not removed by the common complexometric...concentration range, or at the level of a few ppm in the iron meteorites. The method lends itself readily to the...predicted by earlier rocket experiments. DAMAGED IRON METEORITES V. F. Buchwald Smithsonian Institution
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Ireland The distribution of some trace elements in iron meteorites, as determined by neutron activation...relation to the structural classifications of the iron meteorites. I t is shown that a number of meteorites...gallium following the widely accepted division of iron meteorites into four distinct Ga-Ge "quantized"...groups are discussed in relation to the evolution of iron meteorites, and to possible correlations with cosmic-ray...of the four distinct gallium-germanium groups in iron meteorites (LOvEgn~G et al., 1957) and to specific
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Germany 9 Laborat orio de Geocronologia, Instituto de Geoci^encias, Universidade de Brasılia, Brazil *...silicate impact melt in the Netscha€evo IIE iron meteorite (Van Roosbroek et al. 2017). Overall, there...Kamil formed by the impact of the Gebel Kamil iron meteorite onto Cretaceous sandstone of the Gilf Kebir... 2012; Fazio et al. 2014). The Gebel Kamil iron meteorite is an ungrouped, 4 C. Hamann et al. Fig...experiment A20-5339 prior to preparation. f) Mixed Campo del Cielo–sandstone sample of MEMIN laser melting experiment
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