DRONINO METEORITE END CUT For Sale

DRONINO METEORITE END CUT
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DRONINO METEORITE END CUT:
$405.00

REDUCED 10% OFF. This is a beautiful mirror polished end cut Dronino meteorite. It weighs 311.8 grams. It measures approx. 2.75 in. by 1.875 in. by 1.5 in. It is classified as an Ungrouped Iron Ataxite,(iron meteorite).
From Wikipedia:Most of themeteoric ironiskamacitewith minor amounts oftaenite. The kamacite chemistry contains 7.0% Ni and 0.75% Co, whereas the taenite has 26.5% Ni and 0.35% Co (% of total mass).About 10% of the volume of the meteorite aresulfides. Accessory minerals includechromiteand an iron-phosphate, which could possibly begraftonite.[1][2]
Because there are no historical descriptions of theimpact eventof the Meteorite it has been estimated that thefallwould have to have occurred before the earliest settlements formed in that region in 1200.[citation needed]
The meteorite is named after the villageDroninowhere it was found.[1]The meteorite was discovered by Oleg Gus’kov in July 2000 on his way home from mushroom collecting near the village of Dronino (54.746667°N 41.42166°E).Suspecting that Gus’kov had only found a fragment of a larger meteorite different search parties went to Dronino in summer 2003 and discovered more than 600 fragments with a total mass of about 3,000 kilograms (6,600lb), the largest being 250 kilograms (550lb).[1][2]
From the distribution of the meteorite fragments it has been estimated that the meteorite formed a crater with a diameter of 30 m.]


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