On Offer: 40.60 gram unclassified oriented chondrite meteorite.

Type: Chondrite  

Description: An amazing 40.60g oriented chondrite with extraordinary orientation displaying extensive scoriaceous glassy froth on the trailing surface. Degree of magnetic response indicates it is a metal-bearing chondritic meteorite. In this particular case the aesthetic beauty and collectibility of the specimen overshadows the need to know the exact classification. Any attempt to fully classify it would require it to be cut, destroying it's intrinsic beauty and perfect shape. Some mysteries are better left unsolved.  

What you get: 40.60g Chondrite specimen as shown, and signed Certificate of Authenticity.

Chondrites can be differentiated from iron meteorites due to their low iron and nickel content. Other non-metallic meteorites, achondrites, which lack chondrules, were formed more recently.

There are currently over 27,000 chondrites in the world's collections. The largest individual stone ever recovered, weighing 1770 kg, was part of the Jilin meteorite shower of 1976. Chondrite falls range from single stones to extraordinary showers consisting of thousands of individual stones, as occurred in the Holbrook Fall of 1912, where an estimated 14,000 stones rained down on northern Arizona."