Authentic Campo del Cielo Meteorite Collector Display Piece

This authentic Campo del Cielo meteorite is a striking 16-gram iron meteorite distinguished by its irregular sculptural form, metallic silver-grey surface and deeply textured natural contours. The specimen displays numerous ridges, cavities and overlapping structures, giving it a wonderfully rugged character from every angle. Its compact size makes it an excellent addition to a personal meteorite collection while still offering plenty of detail to examine.

Specimen Details

✓ Meteorite: Campo del Cielo Iron Meteorite
✓ Classification: Iron Meteorite, IAB-MG complex
✓ Locality: Campo del Cielo, Chaco Province, Argentina
✓ Composition: Predominantly iron and nickel
✓ Colour: Metallic silver-grey with darker weathered areas
✓ Lustre: Metallic
✓ Structure: Irregular, heavily textured mass
✓ Specimen Size: Approximately 29 × 11 × 14 mm
✓ Weight: 16 g

The Campo del Cielo meteorite is one of the most historically important meteorite discoveries on Earth. These iron meteorites fell between approximately 4,000 and 5,000 years ago in the Gran Chaco region of northern Argentina, creating a vast strewn field containing numerous individual fragments and impact features.

Indigenous communities knew of the unusual iron masses long before their significance was understood by modern science. The name Campo del Cielo, meaning “Field of the Sky,” reflects the extraordinary origin of these stones. Spanish explorers formally documented the meteorite site in 1576, giving Campo del Cielo a remarkably long history of human observation and documentation.

Campo del Cielo is particularly important to meteorite collectors because of its exceptional provenance, enormous total recovered mass, and classification as an IAB iron meteorite. Formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago from material associated with an ancient differentiated asteroid, these meteorites preserve a physical record of the processes that shaped the early Solar System. Owning an individual fragment therefore means possessing a piece of material that predates Earth itself.

Bring a piece of an ancient cosmic collision into your collection with this uniquely textured Campo del Cielo meteorite—a compact specimen with an extraordinary story written into its metallic surface.