Campo del Cielo Meteorite 14.4kg

Billions of years ago, this metallic alloy resided deep within the molten core of a developing protoplanet. When that world was shattered by a massive cosmic collision, its metallic heart was broken and scattered across the silence of the void. This specimen is a literal fragment of that ancient planetary center—a relic of a lost world. Recovered from the Gran Chaco region of Argentina, Campo del Cielo is classified as a IAB-MG iron, a nickel-iron alloy that cooled at an incredibly slow rate in the early solar system. The natural regmaglypts and sculpted geometry of this 14.4kg piece were forged by the intense friction of atmospheric entry approximately 5,000 years ago. It remains a humble and ethereal witness to the violent yet beautiful events that built our planetary neighborhood—a quiet opportunity to hold a fragment of the universe’s heart.

Numerous additional masses have been found over the years and Campo del Cielo has one of the longest and most interesting terrestrial histories of any iron meteorite. It is a polycrystalline, coarse octahedrite and cut specimens often show inclusions of silicate-graphite-troilite.