This melted and vaporized Earth rocks were thrown and blown high into the atmosphere where the material cooled into aerodynamic shapes as the blobs of plastic glass fell back down. Tektites are glass objects created by the melting of terrestrial rocks by an asteroid collision with Earth.

Mesosiderites often have fascinating textures as a result of the mixing of stone and metallic materials. Mesosiderites contain silicate minerals in addition to the one-half nickel-iron. Pallasites are beautiful extraterrestrial jewels once sliced to expose their crystals. In the case of the Pallasites, the other portion is olivine crystals, the same mineral as peridot the semiprecious gemstone. Stony-Iron Meteorites contain approximately half nickel-iron metal. Stony-Iron Meteorites are the family of meteorites represented by the Pallasites and the Mesosiderites. New for 2021 we created our Moon Dust display boxes for sale. NWA 11474 lunar meteorite and NWA 12269 Martian meteorite are very nice representative specimen. The origins of Lunar Meteorites and Martian Meteorites are well confirmed today. Their lunar and Martian origins have been confirmed through intensive analysis in laboratories using amongst other evidence, the Apollo Moon Rocks, and Martian atmospheric isotopes as references. Lunar and Martian Meteorites are stones that arrived on Earth from asteroid impacts on the Moon and Mars. The giant asteroid Vesta is believed to be the parent body for many achondrites of the Howardite, Eucrite, and Diogenite families of meteorites. Achondrite meteorites come from larger asteroids where minerals melted by pressure within the asteroid or where surface collisions resulted in the melting of asteroid material. Carbonaceous meteorites are among the rarest types of space rocks with the most well known being the Allende meteorite.Īchondrites are meteorites without chondrules. This class of meteorites is especially important to research scientists. Some Carbonaceous Chondrites contain organic compounds and primitive protein molecules. Our meteorite beads are handmade from ordinary chondrite.Ĭarbonaceous Chondrite Meteorites have chondrules but also have the element carbon in their composition. All chondrites share the fact that they have small spherical structures called chondrules as can be seen in most of the meteorite slices.

Chondrite meteorites form the largest family of meteorites and come in many varieties. A couple of excellent examples are Canyon Diablo and Sihote-Alin meteorites.Ĭhondrite Meteorites are often called Ordinary Chondrites to distinguish them from other stone meteorites. Iron meteorites are made almost entirely of solid nickel-iron metal and display beautiful internal structures when polished and etched. Iron Meteorites come from the broken metal cores of destroyed asteroids.

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