Specimen weight: 672.8 grams
This
specimen is a partial slice, cut thin enough to show very nice
translucency of the olivine crystals, yet thick enough to
maintain the beautiful green color. If Esquel is cut too thin,
the crystal color fades to a light yellow instead of emerald
green. This is a truly museum-quality specimen.
The
Esquel meteorite was found in Chubut, Argentina in 1951 by a
rancher digging a cattle pond. A single mass weighing more than
700 kilograms was found. Despite more than 50 years of
searching, no more pieces of this rare pallasite have been
recovered.