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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

Minerals reported from the meteorite include:

Cohenite - iron carbide

Chromite - iron chromium oxide

Daubreelite - iron(II) chromium sulfide

Diamond and Lonsdaleite - carbon

Graphite - carbon

Haxonite - iron nickel carbide

Kamacite iron nickel alloy - the most common component.

Base Metal Sulfide s

Schreibersite - iron nickel phosphide

Taenite iron nickel alloy

Troilite iron sulfide

Moissanite - the second hardest natural mineral

Clair Cameron Patterson , in 1953 , used samples of the meteorite to measure the Age Of The Earth at 4,550 million years (± 70 million years).

REFERENCES

Mindat.org

NASA research note

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