They've been coming out for a few years, you can get them by the kilo at Tucson.
Basically they've "exploded" a campo through some method and then polished/oiled the fragments lightly. Many of them have nice iron crystal structures. They're fun pieces! I've heard various theories on how they were "exploded", but if anyone can shed more light on that technique, please do. -Yinan On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Bob King <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > This has been bugging me a while, but I've noticed lots of smaller > Campo del Cielos on eBay recently that look like very melted > Sikhote-Alins. Does anyone know what's going on with these? Is someone > blowing up Campos and melting down the pieces. Here's an example: > http://tinyurl.com/4nuvhwn > Thanks! > Bob > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
