Esquel Meteorite

Description

Pallasite (stony-iron meteorite), cut and polished roughly-triangular slice, steel-grey metallic showing several groups of pale-green to yellow olivines in nickel-iron matrix with Widmanstätten pattern, originally found in 1951 near Esquel, Chubut Province, Argentina, SOUTH AMERICA.

Museum reference

G.2010.9.1

Collection

Natural Sciences

Object name

Pallasite

Collection place(s)

Esquel, Chubut, Argentina, South America

Associations

Olivine, undifferentiated

Exhibitions

• Restless Earth (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 3 »
natural world, restless earth