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Imilac   contributed by jnmczurich, IMCA 2391   MetBul Link


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5.13 kg mirror-polished end section. 225 x 150 x 80 mm   Pallasite, PMG

TKW 920 kg. Observed fall: no. Found 1822 in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

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Jürgen/jnmczurich writes:
This end section is a part of a 19 kg mass, found within the Imilac strewn field in 1986. One of the pictures shows the original impact crater with the 19 kg individual/fragment looking some few centimeters out of the soil of the crater basement. Diameter of the crater is 80 cm.

A friend of mine and I bought the whole 19 kg specimen and cut it in two halves in 1987. This 5.13 kg end section is one of my collection center pieces.
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Jim Strope
 8/12/2016 11:04:07 PM
Spectacular!!!
Anne Black
 8/12/2016 1:15:01 PM
Beautiful piece Jurgen. Now we want to see more of your collection!
Jansen Lyons
 8/12/2016 11:20:58 AM
Wow! Biggest I've ever seen!
John Cabassi
 8/12/2016 9:16:42 AM
Would be my center piece too. Very nice Jurgen
Twink Monrad
 8/12/2016 8:16:54 AM
super beautiful and interesting
David
 8/12/2016 5:20:50 AM
Just Awesome!
Andreas Koppelt
 8/12/2016 5:20:13 AM
One of the very best!
Anita
 8/12/2016 5:13:05 AM
Well bless your heart!
Bernd Pauli
 8/12/2016 5:02:06 AM
Wow! Gorgeous piece and awesome impact hole! Thanks for sharing with us!
Jarkko Kettunen
 8/12/2016 4:53:11 AM
Amazing piece! Beautiful from both sides.
Adri*n Contreras G*mez
 8/12/2016 4:41:16 AM
Precioso ejemplar y preciosa historia. Enhorabuena por la adquisici*n!
MexicoDoug
 8/12/2016 3:58:56 AM
Jurgen, That is amazing that an impact crater for a mass of this size could even be imagined to survive for hundreds if not a thousand or two years! Thanks for a anecdote and a look at your world class specimen.
Matthias
 8/12/2016 3:31:01 AM
After all (salty super-aridity of Atacama) mirroring the green, green grass of Switzerland : - ) Dramatic difference between the wild dionysian backside and the apollonian mirror. Personally I prefer the iron-grid unetched, as it is in this case, the beautiful structure is so much clearer. And the olivine windows of the end section are transparent not to look through, but to allow to anticipate the mysterious abyss of the meteorite. What a wonderful Imilac, congratulation, J*rgen.
 

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