Walter wrote:
> Someone please tell me if I am wrong ... but I
> thought Santa Catherina is a very rust-prone iron.
Gregory wrote:
> Yes, what few specimens I've seen have been mostly brick-colo(u)red,
> fairly friable, with little or no metal left ... almost like some Nantans.
Vagn Buchwald wrote (in 1975):
" ... Some specimens are nothing else but solid limonite, and others
contain a metallic core 10-25 cm across inside a 10-15 mm thick crust
of terrestrial oxides. Even the metallic cores are severely corroded, ..."
Reference:
BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 3, pp. 1068-1072.
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