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Taenite

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Description
Locality: 
Sikhote-Alin Meteorite, Paseka, Primorskiy Kray, Russian Federation
Class: 
Artefact
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Description

A "thumbprinted", “individual” Sikhote-Aline ironmeteorite (coarsest octahedrite IIB, fall 10:38 a.m. 12-2-1947, 5.9% Ni) from this well witnessed fall. It contains several minerals like taenite, plessite, troilite, chromite, kamacite, and schreibersite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Taenite

Formula: 
(Fe,Ni)
Strunz: 
1.AE.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Gorge river, South Westland, South Island, New Zealand

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