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Sikhote-Alin Meteorite

$310.00

An uncut, unpolished Sikhote-Alin meteorite. Fell in 1947 in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in southeastern Siberia.

Dimensions: 45mm x 40mm x 15mm

Weight: 2.1 oz

1 in stock

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 connect us to the flow of the universe, connecting to other dimensions, and communicating with others.

Sikhote-Alin Iron Meteorite

Location: Sikhote-Alin Mts., SE Russia

Structural Class: Coarsest octahedrite, Widmanstatten bandwidth 9.0 ±5.0mm

Chemical Class: Group IIB, 5.9% Ni, 0.42% Co, 0.46% P, .28% S, 52 ppm Ge, 161 ppm, Ge, 0.03 ppm Ir

Time of Fall: Feb. 12, 1947, 10:38 a.m.

Witnesses reported a fireball traveling across the sky that was brighter than the sun. It left a trail of smoke and dust 20 miles long that lingered for several hours. The light and sound of the fall were observed for two hundred miles around the point of impact. The speed of entry was estimated to be 31,100 mph. When the descending fragments reached an altitude of about 3.5 miles (about half the altitude passenger jets fly), the largest mass broke up in a violent explosion. A total estimated mass of 77 tons of iron meteorite scattered over an elliptical area of about half a square mile, creating small craters and pits. One crater measured 85 feet across and 20 feet deep.

Additional information

Weight 4.1 oz
Dimensions 2 × 2 × 1 in

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