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Iron Meteorite
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1111 2498 (2011-11-30)Copyright © 2011 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Sep 20, 2011
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Barringer Crater (Meteor Crater) (Coconino County, Arizona, US)notes This sample comes from Canyon Diablo, the site of an enormous impact 50,000 years ago. The collision created a crater 1.2 km in diameter and 180 meters deep. Thousands of meteorite fragments totalling more than 30 tons have been recovered from the area. This iron meteorite is classified structurally as a coarse octahedrite and chemically as IAB. This cross section shows the characteristic crystal structures known as the Widmanstaatten patternkeywords: geology, earth science, mineral, mineralogy, meteorite
camera Canon EOS 7D, 100mm macro, f/20, 1/6 sec.
From the collection of Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum photo category: Misc. - geology
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