Anne Black
4/10/2022 2:11:53 PM |
Yes, John. To me it looks like a little cave. But that is a good example of what humidity can do to an iron meteorite.
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John Divelbiss
4/10/2022 1:35:35 PM |
this piece looks like a limonite socket without its' ball of iron-nickel... |
Bernd Pauli
4/10/2022 4:50:42 AM |
BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 3, pp. 1068-1072:
" ... 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, ..." |
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