Friday's Rock - A big meteorsteemCreated with Sketch.

in #geology8 years ago

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This is a piece of the Canyon Diablo meteorite from Arizona. When I first looked at it, I wondered if it was real. Not all meteorites look like this; it's so big, so solid and metal looking thanks to it 90% iron and 7% nickel composition.

According to its label, it collided with the earth 50,000 years ago.

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Canadian Museum of Nature - mineral collection

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Photo from the iPad of @kansuze.

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Amazing! It kind of has a gold look to it.

I thought it looked painted.

I love the pocked look that they get. I have a tiny piece of Moldavite

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