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Lot 1144

Uruacu Etched End Cut

27 May 2010, 13:00 EDT
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Uruacu Etched End Cut

Iron, Octahedrite IAB
Uruaçu, Goiás, Central-West Region, Brazil

What makes this nickel-iron meteorite so special is the relatively immense numbers of rodlike inclusions of Schreibersite, a mineral that is not naturally found on earth. Found only in meteorites and in particularly high concentrations in nickel-iron meteorites, Schreibersite is visible as black rods in the iron-nickel matrix of Uruacu meteorites. This exquisite end cut of the Uruacu meteorite has been etched to clearly show the unique Widmanstatten pattern and rods of Schreibersite, weighs 1,456 grams; measures 5.5 x 3.8in

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