Saint-Aubin IIIAB Iron Meteorites for Sale
Location: Aube Champagne, France, 48° 29'N, 3° 35'E
Found: 1968.
Type: Iron, IIIAB, Medium Octahedrite (0.7 mm bandwidth)
Description: Five masses of total weight 472 kg were found by farmers while ploughing, within a strewn field a few miles across. Classification (E. Dransart and M. Baron, EMTT): kamacite bandwidth 0.4 mm; bulk composition Ni = 11.5 ± 1%, Co = 4 mg/g, P = 2 mg/g, Ir = 0.02 µg/g, Ga = 28 µg/g, Ge = 83 µg/g. The meteorite contains sarcopside and/or graftonite and needles of schreibersite up to 6 cm in length. It shows typical shock features (Neumann lines and shock-hatched kamacite). The original writeup for Saint-Aubin classified it as an "ungrouped iron. MB 94 noted "The classification of Saint Aubin is in error. It is a high-Ni, high-Au, low-Ir member of the IIIAB group."
Link to Meteoritical Bulletin Database.
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| # SAB9-3 | # SAB11-3 | # SAB13-0 | # SAB13-2 | About Scale: Each photo has a small one centimeter cube. That's a little less than a half inch on a side. The coin above is a US dime. |
| Weight: 9.3 | Weight: 11.3 gm | Weight: 13.0 gm | Weight: 13.2 gm | |
| Features: Part Slice. | Features: Slice of fragment | Features: Part Slice. | Features: Part Slice. | |
| Price: sold | sold | sold | sold |
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| # SAB19-1 | # SAB57-8 | # SAB79-1 |
| Weight: 19.1 | Weight: 57.8 | Weight: 79.1 |
| Features: Slice of fragment | Features: Slice of fragment | Features: Slice of fragment |
| sold | $699 | $954 |
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