XXL SAINT AUBIN Famose linee di meteorite FRANCESE, Cohenite, Widmanstatten e Troilite - 295 g

Fantastic plate with several cohenite inclusions, Widmanstatten patterns, Newman and Troilite nodules. It's an un-clustered octahedrite

Saint-Aubin was found in France in 1968, by farmers who were ploughing a field.

Iron meteorites are composed mainly of iron and nickel.
Actually, they are a piece of an asteroid core. In the differentiation process, when the asteroid is a ball of magma, during its formation, iron and nickel settle to the core of the asteroid, as they are the heaviest elements. After cooling, the asteroid metal core is formed. Through catastrophic collisions, the asteroid and its core break and the fragments remain in space, until a piece falls into our planet. They are estimated to account for 5.7% of falls.

The Widmanstätten pattern is the result of the intergrowth of taenite and kamacite strips, which are two iron and nickel alloys. In order to produce this pattern, very slow cooling is needed, of at least 1 degree Celsius per million years

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