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ALDAMA, Mexico

This specimen is unusual because it shows signs of having gone through an extended and intense heating and re-crystalizing process, possibly as a result of passing too near the Sun. The Widmanstatten pattern was completely altered by this encounter, and there seems to have been some other strange consequences as well...