[meteorite-list] Italian iron?

From: Jan Bartels <jan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 3 17:49:55 2005
Message-ID: <1864.213.84.146.142.1123105790.squirrel_at_webmail.uniserver.nl>

Thanks so far Bernd and Matteo,

It was also hard to imagine for me there was one avalable this size!!
I guess he just got himself a fake Italian but still....it's a real piece
of spacejunk alright for little money, so still a good deal i think!!

Thanks you guys....
Jan

> Jan wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine came up to me today with
>> the story he bought a 450 grams Italian iron
>
> I wonder whether it's a piece of the Barbianello, unusually Ni-rich,
> ungrouped ataxitic IAB-IIICD iron - *very* unlikely though but who
> knows. Unlikely because there are only 860 grams and the main mass
> weighs 479 grams.
>
> Any comments? ... Matteo?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
>
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