Iron Meteorites

Iron (nickel iron) Meteorites – Campo del Cielo & Canyon Diablo: Famous meteorites

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Iron meteorites are among some of the most rare on earth. only about 5% of all meteorites that fall to earth are irons. That’s not much considering meteorites are rare to begin with. Scientists believe that iron meteorites are literally at the “core” of planet building in our universe, and could be how the earth and for that matter ALL planets were formed. Read this article on “How To Make A Planet” by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Iron meteorites are made of a nickel iron alloy, and many were made into tools and weapons for ancient peoples. Even more amazing than that, it’s theorized that the very pieces of iron meteorites we hold in our hand today are some of the very same nickel iron material that helped form our planet. Tthe meteorites for sale on this page could possibly have been floating around our solar system for millions of years! Could any of these meteorites that have rocketed through our atmosphere and crashed into our planet 10s of thousands of years ago be a small fragment of a planet?

Canyon Diablo Meteorites

The Canyon Diablo iron meteorite is the worlds most famous meteorite from the best preserved meteorite crater on the planet located in the southweatern United States in Arizona. This crater was formed some 50,000 plus years ago by a giant iron meteor over 50 meters across weighing in at hundreds of thousands of metric tons.

When it impacted the Earth it displaced more than 100 million tons of material and scattered fragments of nickel iron meteorite for up to 15 Kilometers away. The crater itself is a whopping 1.2 kilometers across and over 150 meters deep. The amazing force of the explosion generated by the impact was greater than 30 megatons of TNT. Everything within a 5 mile radius is said to have been obliterated by the concussion shock wave.

We’ve got a great selection of Canyon Diablo meteorites for sale. All are great for any and all meteorite collections. CD (canyon diablo) meteorites are some of the most sought after iron meteorites by collectors. Many pieces of Canyon Diablo meteorite are very expensive and can cost as much as $2 per gram for some sculptured pieces. 

Campo del Cielo Meteorites

Campo Del Cielo in Argentina, South America. Discovered on 1576 by the spanish. The largest campo ever found is 37 tons.

Campo meteorites are very popular among collectors. They’re a readily available and very inexpensive meteorite, perfect for the beginning collector. Campo meteorites are course octahedrite iron meteorites, and reveal a beautiful pattern when sliced and etched. Campos del Cielo meteorites exhibit a wonderful Widmanstätten pattern when etched.

Their affordability and the fact that Campo meteorites are not hard to get make them especially attractive to beginner meteorite collectors. Prices range from .10/g to well over $1/g from some sculpted museum grade meteorites. If I were starting my collection this would be one I would add for sure. I don’t think there is a meteorite collector alive that doesn’t own at least one of these great iron meteorites.