Re-2: [meteorite-list] Santa Catherina Iron

From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:04 2004
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000004C00000CE4_at_paulinet.de>

Walter wrote:

> Someone please tell me if I am wrong ... but I
> thought Santa Catherina is a very rust-prone iron.

Gregory wrote:

> Yes, what few specimens I've seen have been mostly brick-colo(u)red,
> fairly friable, with little or no metal left ... almost like some Nantans.

Vagn Buchwald wrote (in 1975):

" ... Some specimens are nothing else but solid limonite, and others
contain a metallic core 10-25 cm across inside a 10-15 mm thick crust
of terrestrial oxides. Even the metallic cores are severely corroded, ..."

Reference:

BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Volume 3, pp. 1068-1072.

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