Description

Campo del Celio meteorite slice pendant with cord necklace.  Handsome gift box and information card, makes a complete gift.

Campo del Cielo is an iron meteorite that is 92.6% iron, 6.7% nickel and 0.43% cobalt with traces of phosphorus, gallium, germanium and iridium.

This meteorite fell to Earth about 4,500 years ago in northern Argentina. It was part of a much larger body that broke into pieces before impact. The resultant strewn field spans two miles wide by twelve miles long and is comprised of at least 26 craters, the largest being 320 feet wide. More than 100 tons of meteorites bearing the same name have been recovered from this field. The original meteoroid body is estimated to have been 12 feet wide, weighing 800 tons!