(1994) Imilac Strewnfield, Chile, Revisited. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 8(40), 223–264. Meteorite Pallasite 84 grams HephaestusForgeCraft (34) 117.00 FREE shipping Sericho Pallasite Meteorite from Kenya Africa Habaswein part slice K8066 BeardedDlacksmith (209) 198.00 396.00 (50 off) FREE shipping Beautiful SERICHO pallasite Meteorite slice - from Kenya D2019 milkhouseaus (305) 92.50 185. Weight: 45.1 g Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. On the Meteorites which have been found in the Desert of Atacama and its neighbourhood.
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 1851, Vol. Observations on the Geography of Southern Peru, Including Survey of the Province of Tarapaca, and Route to Chile by the Coast of the Desert of Atacama. The crust on the rear of the specimen is thick and well-preserved: the olivine is still all covered. There are flow lines and good fusion crust under the caliche on the front of the specimen: it’s a work in progress. Craggy piece from a late fragmentation event.ħ32.72 grams, oriented. Good flow-lines.ĥ09.51 grams, large olivine crystals. Very thick crust on the trailing face.Ħ69.84 grams, flight-marked. Olivine crystals on the rear of the specimen have been baked due to extended exposure to heat. All are from Serge Afanasyev and Dima Sadilenko.Ģ41.87 grams, flight-marked - very fresh, not cleaned.Ģ02.71 grams, oriented heat-shield. These individuals are as-found, although I have carefully removed free sand and soil from most of them with dental tools. Pallasites are characterized by a unique matrix of the mineral Olivine. It is one of the most beautiful pallasites available, yet has also been known to be a ruster. The specimens were identified as pallasites, a rare class of stony-iron meteorites. If you wanted to travel to Imilac to find some of your own, I’d recommend spending some time going over the locations described by Pedersen & Garcia, and maybe looking around online for recent published find photos with GPS coordinates. The Admire Pallasite Meteorite has been a real challenge. Over the past several years (~2010+), professional teams have pushed farther out and found at least 200 kilograms of fusion-crusted individuals. Beautiful Iron-Nickel Meteorite matrix with crystalline Olivine, a type of Peridot. Some hunters went further afield and were able to follow the strewn field to other large, intact individuals ( Pedersen & Garcia, 1987). Genuine Sericho Pallasite Meteorite, bezel set in Fine Sterling Silver. Several large masses were recovered in the mid-1800s, and not much more was brought to light until the late 20th century, when professional meteorite hunters discovered a few shallow impact craters surrounded by large quantities of shrapnel fragments ( M. It was first brought to the attention of European explorers in the early 19th century, reported as masses of native silver and / or native iron from the desert between Atacama and Copiapo ( W. Imilac was known to the native peoples of the region for hundreds of years.
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