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646.18g CANYON DIABLO meteorite - IAB Iron Meteorite
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On Offer: 646.18 gram Canyon Diablo Meteorite.
Dimensions: 105.46 mm x 86.77 mm x 28.87 mm
Description: This 646.18 gram Canyon Diablo meteorite was found by Frank Zwingenberg at the crater site in the 1950s. It was stored throughout the years in the original waxed box (included with purchase), and subsequently passed down to Frank's niece Leslie who is now in her 60's. She would like to see this amazing Canyon Diablo iron meteorite specimen found by her uncle over 80 years ago find a home with someone who will appreciate it and display it in a manner commensurate with its exceptional history and beauty.
Official Name: Canyon Diablo
Type: Iron, IAB-MG
Structural Classification: Coarse Octahedrite
Find Date: The first modern Canyon Diablo specimen was found in 1891. While there is no evidence to support specimens being found previous to this, it seems possible and perhaps even probable that local prehistoric indigenous peoples had come across and recognized pieces of this hypervelocity meteorite as something special, and possibly even used them as tools or venerated them as sacred objects. This particular specimen was found by Frank Zwingenberg sometime in the 1950's.
Impact Date: Estimated to be approximately 49000 years ago
Location of find: Meteor Crater, Winslow AZ, USA
Witnessed fall: Not by modern humans, but there is a reasonable possibility that prehistoric indigenous inhabitants of the region witnessed this meteorite transit the atmosphere and impact the earth at hypervelocity speeds.
What you get: 646.18 gram Canyon Diablo meteorite as shown, original waxed box & signed Certificate of Authenticity from the Laboratory for Meteorite Analysis and Classification (LMAC).
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| Basic information |
Name: Canyon Diablo This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1891 Country: United States Mass: 30 t |
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This is 1 of 120 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-MG. |
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From Wikipedia:
"The Canyon Diablo meteorites include the many fragments of the asteroid that created Barringer Crater (Meteor Crater), Arizona, United States. Meteorites have been found around the crater rim, and are named for nearby Canyon Diablo, which lies about three to four miles west of the crater."
The Canyon Diablo meteorites include the many fragments of the asteroid that created Barringer Crater (Meteor Crater), Arizona, United States. Meteorites have been found around the crater rim, and are named for nearby Canyon Diablo which lies about three to four miles west of the crater.
History
The asteroid fell about 50,000 years ago. The meteorites have been known and collected since the mid-19th century and were known and used by pre-historic Native Americans. The Barringer Crater, from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, was the center of a long dispute over the origin of craters that showed little evidence of volcanism. That debate was settled in the 1950s thanks to Eugene Shoemakers' study of the crater.
In 1953, Clair Cammeron Patterson measured ratios of the lead isotopes in samples of the meteorite. The result permitted a refinement of the estimate of the age of the Earth to 4.550 billion years (± 70 million years).
Composition and classification
This meteorite is an iron octahadrite. Minerals reported from the meteorite include:
- Cohenite - iron carbide
- Chromite - iron magnesium chromium oxide
- Daubréelite - iron(II) chromium sulfide
- Diamond andIonsdaleite - carbon
- Graphite- carbon
- Haxonite - iron nickel carbide
- Kamacite iron nickel alloy - the most common component.
- Base Metal Sulfides
- Scheidbesite - iron nickel phosphide
- Taenite - iron nickel alloy
- Trolite - a variety of the iron sulfide mineral pyrrhotite. The troilite in this sample is used as the standard reference for sulfur isotope ratios.
- Moissanite - a variety of silicon carbide, the second hardest natural mineral.
Samples may contain troilite-graphite nodules with metal veins and small diamonds.
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