INVESTIGATIONS ON 5 IRON-METEORITES

In the present paper, we report an analysis of five iron meteorites be longing to the private collection of the mineralogy museum of the Univ ersity of Parma (Italy). The collection is made up of eighteen samples , collected over two centuries. Up to now, they have never been studie d by spectroscopical techniques and their classification was estimated on the basis of morphological inspection. Electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and Mossbauer spect roscopy (MS) have been used to analyse the samples.