Class............ Iron meteorite, IIIE-an.
Locality......... Xinjiang, China.
Measures...... 2 cm x 1 cm x 0,2 cm
Mass............ 3 g
Locality......... Xinjiang, China.
Measures...... 2 cm x 1 cm x 0,2 cm
Mass............ 3 g
Metal meteorite pendant (aletai) with extendable leather cord and silver washer.
Meteorite cut, polished and treated with a nitric acid solution so that the
Widmanstätten structures can be seen.
The Widmanstätten structures are the result of the intergrowth of bands of
taenite and camacite, two alloys of iron and nickel, produced by very slow
cooling (on the order of 100 ºC to 10,000 ºC per million years), over periods
of up to 10 million years. This structure cannot be reproduced in the
laboratory, so its presence constitutes unequivocal proof of the authenticity
of a meteorite. They are present in certain metallic meteorites and
lithosiderites.
The box is included in the price.
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