Campo Del Cielo // Ver. IV

The Campo del Cielo iron meteorites were discovered about 500 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is estimated that the meteorites fell 4,000-6,000 years ago at Campo del Cielo (meaning field of sky or heaven) in Gran Chaco, Gualambia. The largest Campo meteorite weighs about 30 tons, and is considered one of Argentina's national treasures.

For centuries, specimens were found in the lowland immersed in damp soil. This specimen is one of a recent find at the mountainside away from the original strewn field, known to collectors as a "new Campo". The new location has no standing water, making these meteorites much more stable than the earlier finds.

This is a Group IA iron meteorite classed as a coarse octahedrite. On average, the composition is 92.5% iron, 6.68% nickel, and many different trace elements. There are a number of scarce minerals found in it as well, including kamacite, taenite, plessite, triolite, as well as graphite, and silicates.