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Own a slice of the meteorite found on camera by the Science Channel’s Meteorite Men at the Alpha/Admire site in Kansas while they filmed the pilot episode. Each unique pallasite slice is set in ...
The Earth is a wondrous place, but some of the most stunning things sometimes come from off-world. Take, for example, pallasite meteorites – extra-terrestrial rocks that are strung through with ...
Pallasites are not much to look at from the outside: generally rusty orange and brown lumps. But slice them open, and they are the gems of the meteorite world.
The “main mass” of the world famous Fukang Meteorite is to go under the hammer with an expected sale price of US$1 million - an entrepreneurial opportunity of the highest order.
Elmore County man Joe Champion claims he recently discovered a rare meteorite in a load of soil and rock he was sorting through. Champion identified the find as a pallasite meteorite, which are ...
Mineralogists at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum have taken their first look inside a rare chunk of meteorite found in Saskatchewan in 2009.
A rock found by a farmer in Conception Junction, Missouri, has been identified as a rare type of pallasite meteorite worth millions. The meteorite comes from an asteroid in the solar system's ...
Weighing in at 1,430 pounds, the world's largest oriented pallasite meteorite fell to Earth about 10,000 years ago and was excavated from a field in rural Kansas in October 2005.
This 4.0-gram slice is part of the meteorite that fell over the Chicago suburbs on March 26, 2003. It’s a stone meteorite, L5 chondrite, and about 18 kg total have been recovered. The meteorite ...
The U.S. lab claims their polished slice of the original meteorite is the world's biggest pallasite cross section, measuring 36in by 19in.
The 15-by-10 centimetre slice of rock revealed that the interior of the pallasite has a kaleidoscopic sheen of metallic grey and brownish green.