Meteorite Information
• Specimen: Gebel Kamil
• Dimensions: approximately 25 mm x 15 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 10.1 grams
• Classification: Iron, ungrouped
• Type: Ataxite
• Locality of Fall: Egypt
• Year Fell / Found: 2009
• Observed Fall: No
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About This Meteorite
A meteorite hit Egypt likely thousands of years ago, creating an impact crater and a total of about 1600 kg of iron meteorite shrapnel (thousands of pieces), that rained down ranging in mass from < 1 to 35,000 g.
An additional single 83 kg individual piece that was completely covered with well developed regmaglypts, was found in and around the 45 m diameter Kamil impact crater by an Italian-Egyptian geophysical team in February 2009 and February 2010. Approximately 800 kg of the total mass observed in the field (the regmaglypted individual inclusive) was recovered. The Kamil crater was identified by V. De Michele, former curator of the Natural History Museum in Milan, Italy. The geophysical survey was carried out within the framework of the "2009 Italian-Egyptian Year of Science and Technology". The Gebel Kamil meteorite contains the minerals schreibersite and kamacite.
As an astronomer and meteorite hunter, I am fascinated by the journey meteorites have taken through space and the scientific insights they hold.
The Cosmos has an extraordinary story to tell—this meteorite preserves one small chapter of it.
Jana
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