Month: June 2020

This is the first meteorite I ever purchased. Big investment for a college guy back then. Campo del Cielo is an iron meteorite that fell 4800 years ago in the current Argentina. Its fireball was so bright that stories about it passed from one generation to another. When Spaniards arrived at the place, they were told by the locals that the sky had fallen, hence its name.

The first meteorite I ever had. My father went to Morocco and brought home several chondrites he had bought there. Then he asked me to choose any of my liking to give it to me as a gift. Despite it was smaller than others, I chose this 50 g piece because I liked the oriented shape.