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Slaghek's Iron | |||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Slaghek's Iron This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1916 Country: Chile Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 338 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||
Comments: | Revised 14 Sep 2013: Released new information | ||||||||||||
Writeup![]() |
Writeup from MB 102:
Slaghek's Iron, Updated Information from V. Moggi Cecchi, MSP History: A mass of 1.9 kg was picked up by an anonymous collector in the Atacama Desert, Chile and brought to the Technical Institute of Livorno, Italy, by Gino H. Slaghek-Fabbri on October 1, 1916. No details of the place or date of find are available. Physical characteristics: The top surface of the meteorite is covered by densely spaced pits 3-5 mm deep with sharp ridges in between. No traces of fusion crust are visible. Petrography: (V. Moggi Cecchi, MSP): An etched section displays a medium Widmanstätten structure with straight, long and 1.3±0.2 mm wide kamacite lamellae (L/W ~25). Schreibersite commonly occurs as tiny rhabdite grains or as veins at grain boundaries. Laths of Brezina lamellae (>1 mm wide) surrounded by swathing kamacite occasionally observed. Plessite, partly spheroidized, is common. Neumann bands are rare, thus indicating low shock. Geochemistry: (J.T. Wasson, UCLA, by INAA): The composition of the metal is 0.513 % Co, and 8.77 % Ni; 188 Cu, 22.0 Ga, 51.0 Ge, 8.53 As, 0.77 W, 0.450 Ir, 0.995 Au (all in μg/g); (F. Rugi, UniFi, by ICP-MS): 0.525% Co, and 8.82% Ni; 186 Cu, 24.0 Ga, 53.0 Ge, 8.47 As, 0.73 W, 0.453 Ir, 0.989 Au (all in μg/g). Classification: (V. Moggi Cecchi, MSP): Iron (III AB, medium octahedrite). Specimens: A total of 311 g of sample is on deposit at MSP (Inv. # 5193). MSNM holds of the main mass, now weighing 1512 g. | ||||||||||||
Buchwald | The following entries were found for Slaghek's Iron in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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Institutions and collections |
MSP: Museo di Scienze Planetarie, Via Galcianese 20/H, 59100 Prato, Italy, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 22 Oct 2022) UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) MSNM: Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo, Via Roma 234, 57127 Livorno , Italy (institutional address; updated 14 Sep 2013) UniFi: Università degli Studi di Firenze, P.zza S. Marco, 4 - 50121 Firenze, Italy (institutional address; updated 14 Sep 2013) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography:![]() |
Statistics: This is 1 of 2399 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 15 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||
Synonyms![]() |
Atacama Desert (In NHM Cat) Slaghek Fabbri (In NHM Cat) |