PERFECT VALENTINE\'S DAY GIFT Genuine Campo Del Cielo METEORITE pieces spell LOVE for Sale

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PERFECT VALENTINE\'S DAY GIFT Genuine Campo Del Cielo METEORITE pieces spell LOVE For Sale

$PERFECT VALENTINE\'S DAY GIFT Genuine Campo Del Cielo METEORITE pieces spell LOVE$
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PERFECT VALENTINE\'S DAY GIFT Genuine Campo Del Cielo METEORITE pieces spell LOVE:
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AUTHENTIC CAMP DEL CIELO METEORITE pieces which spell out the word \"LOVE\" and also has a heart-shaped meteorite piece above the word!
Talk about your \"love being written in the stars\"!! This gift is guaranteed to be unique, unexpected, and totally AWESOME to give to someone you love on Valentine\'s Day!!!
The famous meteorite fell to Earth between 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, landing in present-day Argentina. This is a once-in-a-lifetime, one-of-a-kind Valentine for someone you love. The certificate of authenticity will be enclosed (please see pictures) along with the meteorite letters which are set in a cardboard display box. You can either leave them as is, or you can display them as you see fit...as part of an art project, mounted and framed...however you desire.
Here is a brief history of the meteorite from Wikipedia:\"Campo del Cielo refers to a group of iron meteorites and the area in Argentina where they were found.[1] The site straddles the provinces of Chaco and Santiago del Estero, located 1,000 kilometers (620mi) north-northwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina and approximately 500 kilometres (310mi) southwest of Asunción, Paraguay. The crater field covers 18.5 by 3 kilometres (11.5 by 1.9mi) and contains at least 26 craters, the largest being 115 by 91 metres (377 by 299ft).[2]

The craters are estimated to be four to five thousand years old. They were reported to the general public in 1576, but were already well-known by aboriginal peoples. The craters and surrounding areas contain many fragments of an iron meteorite. In total, approximately 100 tonnes of fragments have been recovered, the most of any meteorite find.[3][4]

The two largest fragments, the 30.8-tonne Gancedo and 28.8-tonne El Chaco, are among the heaviest single-piece meteorite masses recovered on Earth, following the 60-tonne Hoba meteorite and a 31-tonne fragment of the Cape York meteorite.

In 1576, the governor of a province in northern Argentina commissioned the military to search for a huge mass of iron, which he had heard that natives used for their weapons. The natives claimed that the mass had fallen from the sky in a place they called Piguem Nonralta, which the Spanish translated as Campo del Cielo (\"Field of heaven (or the sky)\"). The expedition found a large mass of metal protruding out of the soil and collected a few samples, which were described as being of unusual purity. The governor documented the expedition and submitted the report to the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, but it was quickly forgotten and later reports merely repeated the native legends.

Following the legends, in 1774 Don Bartolomé Francisco de Maguna rediscovered the iron mass which he called el Mesón de Fierro (\"the Table of Iron\"). Maguna believed that the mass was the tip of an iron vein. The next expedition, led by Rubin de Celis in 1783, used explosives to clear the ground around the mass and found that it was likely a single stone. Celis estimated its mass as 15 tonnes and abandoned it as worthless. He believed that it had formed by a volcanic eruption, rather than being a meteorite. However, he sent samples to the Royal Society in London and published his report in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.[5] Those samples were later analyzed and found to contain 90% iron and 10% nickel; they were assigned to a meteoritic origin.[6]

Since the crater field\'s discovery, hundreds of iron pieces have been recovered, weighing from a few milligrams to 34 tonnes. Otumpa, a mass of approximately 1 tonne, was discovered in 1803. A 634-kilogram (1,398lb) portion of this mass was taken to Buenos Aires in 1813, then donated to the British Museum. Other large fragments are summarized in the table below. The mass called El Taco was originally 3,090 kilograms (6,810lb), but the largest remaining fragment weighs 1,998 kilograms (4,405lb).[7]\"

This is a truly awesome Valentine\'s Day gift!!

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