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3 unusual facts about Telluric iron


Telluric iron

Knowing that the Inuit had made tools from the Cape York meteorite, Nordenskiöld assumed that the metal was of meteoric origin, since both contain significant amounts of nickel and both had Widmanstatten structures.

A 25 ton block now rests outside of the Riksmuseum in Stockholm, a 6.6 ton block outside the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, and a 3 ton block can be found in Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki.

Steenstrup’s findings were later confirmed by meteorite expert J. Lawrence Smith in 1879, and then by Joh Lorenzen in 1882.



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