Campo del Cielo Meteorite with Sculpted Natural Iron Form

This Campo del Cielo meteorite is a compact and highly sculptural iron specimen, displaying an intricate arrangement of rounded protrusions, ridges, cavities and naturally weathered surfaces. Its silver-grey metallic exterior contrasts beautifully with darker recessed areas, creating considerable visual depth across the specimen. The irregular form changes dramatically from one angle to another, revealing new textures and contours that make this an especially engaging piece to examine and display.

The specimen's heavily textured surface reflects the natural character of an iron meteorite recovered from the famous Campo del Cielo strewn field in Argentina. Rather than presenting as a simple rounded fragment, this individual piece has developed an unusually complex profile, with overlapping metallic forms giving it an almost miniature sculptural quality.

Specimen Details

✓ Meteorite: Campo del Cielo
✓ Meteorite Type: Iron Meteorite
✓ Classification: IAB-MG
✓ Composition: Primarily Iron and Nickel
✓ Fall Location: Chaco Province, Argentina
✓ Fall Age: Approximately 4,000–5,000 years ago
✓ Age: Approximately 4.5 billion years old
✓ Specimen Size: ≈21mm × 12mm × 18mm
✓ Weight: 14 gram

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 small piece of the ancient Solar System into your collection—this uniquely contoured Campo del Cielo specimen rewards close examination with a new detail revealed from every angle.