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Iron Var Kamacite Meteorite

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Iron Var Kamacite Meteorite

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Description
Locality: 
Gebel Kamil Meteorite, East Uweinat Desert, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.3 × 0.9 × 0.5 cm
Description

Nice complete piece of Gebel Kamil meteorite. The crater was found observing satellite photos, and firstly visited by a research group in February 2010.

The Gebel Kamil meteorite is an ungrouped Ni-rich (about 20 wt% Ni) ataxite characterized by high Ge and Ga contents and by a very fine-grained duplex plessite metal matrix. Accessory mineral phases in Gebel Kamil are schreibersite, troilite, daubréelite, and native copper (D’Orazzio et al., 2011).

This piece was found using magnets by a group of Belgian collectors that visited the crater in 2011.

 

D’Orazzio, M.; Folco, L.; Zeoli, A. & , and Cordier, C. (2011). Gebel Kamil: The iron meteorite that formed the Kamil crater (Egypt). Meteoritics & Planetary Science 46, 8, 1179–96.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Iron

Formula: 
Fe
Strunz: 
1.AE.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.5
Streak: 
Grey
Type Locality: 
Qeqertarsuaq Island (Disko Island), Qaasuitsup, Greenland

Kamacite

Variety Of: 

Iron

Formula: 
Fe
Strunz: 
1.AE.05
Hardness: 
4.5
Formula: 
(Fe,Ni)
Strunz: 
1.AE.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Colour: 
Grey
Streak: 
Grey

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