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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 Arizona lab's experts say pallasites, whose make-up of half nickel-iron, half olivine gives them their mosaic-like appearance, are 'thought to be relics of forming planets'.
The 52.8-kilogram chunk — the biggest piece of a pallasite ever found in Canada — was recovered by a meteorite hunter who combed through the site again with an ATV and modern metal detectors ...
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. David J. Eicher ...
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.
A 2,900g slice of the Hambleton rock has been valued between £7,000 and £10,000 ahead of its sale at Lyon and Turnbull in Edinburgh later. It was found by Rob Elliott in North Yorkshire in 2005.
Only 84 pallasites have been discovered worldwide, three of which were in Canada. Besides the ROM’s newest acquisition, a pallasite was uncovered in Southhampton, Ont., in 2001. The other was ...
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 ...
Champion identified the find as a pallasite meteorite, which are believed to form between the silicate mantle, or outer shell, and molten metal core of a differentiated asteroid (asteroids that ...