On Offer: An exceptional A++ 18,484.5 gram (40.75 pounds!) Canyon Diablo Meteorite, with exceptional naturally sculpted shape, and several large vugs where carbon nodules have been excavated.

This is the iron meteorite responsible for the hypervelocity impact that created the world famous Meteor Crater in Winslow, AZ an estimated 50,000 years ago.

Comes with custom foam padded water proof hard case, signed 5x7 double-sided color Certificate of Authenticity.

*This specimen has been professionally prepared with only a light cleaning leaving the natural patina, while removing the terrestrial carbonates.

Official Name: Canyon Diablo

Type: Iron, IAB-MG

Structural Classification: Coarse Octahedrite

First Found Date: 1891

Fall date‎: ‎~49000 years ago

Location of find: Coconino, Arizona, USA

Witnessed fall: No

What you get: 18,484.5 gram Canyon Diablo meteorite as shown, & signed Certificate of Authenticity.

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Canyon Diablo

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

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 33	(1965)	Iron
NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	IAB
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	IAB-MG
Recommended:			Iron, IAB-MG [explanation]

This is 1 of 120 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-MG.

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."

Canyon Diablo
Canyon Diablo iron meteorite fragment (IAB) 2,641 grams. Note colorful natural desert patina.
Type	Iron
Structural Classification	Coarse Octahedrite
Group	IAB-MG
Composition	7.1% Ni; 0.46% Co; 0.26% P; 1% C; 1% S; 80ppm Ga; 320ppm Ge; 1,9ppm Ir
Country	United States
Region	Coconino County, Arizona

Observed Fall	No
Fall date	49000 years ago
Found date	1891
TKW	30 tonnes
Strewn Field	Yes
etched slice

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.