Certified iron meteorite Campo del Cielo. The weight of the meteorite 33.30g. * Origin: Argentina * Type of meteorite: iron octahedrite. * Age: 4.5 billion years * Average composition: * 92.6% Iron * 6.67% Nickel * 0.43% Cobalt * 0.25% Phosphorus * 87 ppm Gallium * 407 ppm Germanium * 3.6 ppm Iridium About Meteorite The Campo del Cielo meteorite, which means "Field of Heaven", comes from a meteor shower that occurred about four thousand years ago in the territory of modern Argentina. These remnants, consisting mainly of iron (92.6%), are evidence of the formation of our solar system. It is believed that the original asteroid weighing about 800 tons split into many fragments scattered over an area of about 320 square kilometers. The first written mention of the iron mass appeared in 1576.
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