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Iron Meteorite

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Locality: 
Coconino County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2 × 1 cm
Description

Fragment of  Canyon Diablo's iron  metorite, this asteroid fell about 50,000 years ago and it was found in 1891. This meteorite is an iron octahedrite (coarse octahedrite). Minerals reported from the meteorite include:

Cohenite - iron carbide,
Chromite - iron magnesium chromium oxide
Daubréelite - iron(II) chromium sulfide
Diamond and lonsdaleite - carbon
Graphite - carbon
Haxonite - iron nickel carbide
Kamacite iron nickel alloy - the most common component.
Base metal sulfides
Schreibersite - iron nickel phosphide
Taenite - iron nickel alloy
Troilite - a variety of the iron sulfide mineral pyrrhotite.
Moissanite - a variety of silicon carbide, the second hardest natural mineral.

Samples may contain troilite-graphite nodules with metal veins and small diamonds.

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