Imilac

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File:A Metal Skeleton from the Imilac Pallasite.jpg
A "Metal Skeleton"

Imilac is a pallasite meteorite found in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile in 1822.

Classification

Imilac is classified as a stony–iron pallasite. Imilac specimens are highly prized by meteorite collectors due to its high concentration of beautiful olivine grains.

Strewn field

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Specimens

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Individual

Due to weathering, intact olivine grains are present only on large specimens (over Script error: No such module "convert".). Smaller samples contain darker altered olivine crystals. On the market there are also a lot of very small (few grams) Imilac individuals called metal skeletons: they are severely weathered and lack olivine grains.

Notes

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See also

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