By: callanbentley
Image: Robin Rohrback. MAGIC
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 4 Dec 2020
Last Updated: 4 Dec 2020

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A fragment of the asteroid which blasted Barringer Crater into Arizona during the Pleistocene. Note the Widmanstätten structure to the octahedrite iron crystals. This sample was loaned by Dr. Richard Walker of the University of Maryland.