Beautiful Large Gebel Kamil Meteorite Specimen 966g Egypt's East Uweinat Desert 2009
Lacks a visible Widmanstätten pattern when etched, showing instead a fine-grained duplex plessite matrix with unique veins and a "lizard skin" exterior texture. Over 2Lb specimen!
Collector notes
The Gebel Kamil meteorite is a rare, ungrouped iron-nickel space rock that created the 45-meter-wide Kamil impact crater in Egypt's East Uweinat Desert less than 5,000 years ago. Discovered in 2009 via satellite imagery, the impact site yielded roughly 1,600 kg of well-preserved shrapnel and individual specimens. Location: East Uweinat Desert, Al Wadi al Jadid, Egypt (near the Sudan border). Discovery Date: February 2009 by Italian scientist Vincenzo De Michele using Google Earth. Crater: 45 meters (148 feet) in diameter, featuring an exceptionally preserved structure
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- Meteorite
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