Meteoric Iron
Meteoric Iron· 隕鐵 Steel that fell from the sky
Meteoric Iron (English Meteoric Iron, Latin ferrum caeleste, Sumerian AN.BAR) is the steel fallen from heaven of the decisive canon — the decisive mineralogical canon of the natural alloy of iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni) (typically 6-10% nickel) extracted from meteorites — and the decisive meteoric iron canon of Tutankhamun's dagger of c. 1323 BCE. Aliases — Meteoric Iron (Meteoric Iron), ferrum caeleste (ferrum caeleste, 'iron of heaven'), AN.BAR (AN.BAR, Sumerian 'iron of heaven'), bia-n-pet (bia-n-pet, Egyptian 'iron of heaven'), thokcha (thokcha, Tibetan meteoric iron amulet) — are the decisive canonical vocabulary. The decisive origin canon is the decisive canon of the 9 meteoric iron beads from the Gerzeh (Gerzeh) tomb of Egypt of c. 3500 BCE (discovered 1911, confirmed as meteoric iron by X-ray analysis in 2013). The decisive Tutankhamun canon is the decisive canon of the dagger with a golden hilt from the tomb (KV62) of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun of c. 1323 BCE — confirmed as meteoric iron by X-ray fluorescence analysis in 2016. The decisive Widmanstätten canon is the decisive canon of the Widmanstätten pattern discovered by the Austrian Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten (1754-1849) in 1808.
