Meteorite Campo Del Cielo

This meteorite has well formed thumb-prints or regmaglypts produced by intense heat and ablation as it passed into and through earths atmosphere. Campo Del Cielo meteorites are classified as coarse iron octahedrites, type IAB. This meteorite fall occurred between 4000 and 6000years ago. The first record of its discovery was 1576 by a Spanish Captain named Miravle, although the fall is believed to have been witnessed by local Indians who originally named this region the “field of heaven”.   The stand will be provided as well.