Gladstone
Part of Hall of Meteorites.
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Part of Hall of Meteorites.
An oddball iron
Unlike most iron meteorites, Gladstone probably did not come from the core of a differentiated asteroid. Its unusual iron includes silicate minerals, which in a fully differentiated asteroid would have floated to the mantle and crust. Gladstone may have formed in an unmelted chondrite when an explosive impact melted a pool of lava, and molten iron sank to the bottom and hardened.
GLADSTONE
Found 1915 Portcurtis, Queensland, Australia
IAB AMNH 2621