Meteorite Pendant: Aletai

Meteorite

Meteorites are rocks that fall to the earth's surface from space. Often originating from asteroid and comet fragments that travel through space till crossing our planetary path, as the effects of gravity pull the meteoroid enough to fall through the planet's atmosphere. Meteors, also known as shooting stars, are the streaks of light created by the gasses held within meteoroids burning in the Earth's atmosphere. Some of the fastest meteors travel at speeds of 44 miles (70km) per second. These amazing space rocks are then considered meteorites when they crash to earth as the final bang! Metaphysically, meteorites are said to help connect us to the flow of the universe, and to help with connecting to other dimensions and communicating with others.

Aletai Meterorite

The Aletai meteorite, previously also known as the Armanty meteorite or Xinjiang meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a coarse octahedrite in chemical group IIIE-an. In addition to many small fragments, at least five main fragments with a total mass over 81 tons have been recovered, the largest weighing about 31 tons (the 5th largest meteorite found on Earth). The strewn field of the Aletai meteorite is estimated to be least 267 mi. long, easily the largest meteorite debris scattering field found on the planet, believed to be due to its unique stone skipping-like trajectory upon entry and impact. Discovered in 1898, it was renamed in 2016 after Altay Prefecture where fragments were first found in Northwest China on the Mongolian border (Altay prefecture was named for the Altay Mountains straddling China, Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan).