Shooting Star Jar! Make a Wish/Russian Meteorite, Sikhote-Alin Iron Meteorite Shrapnel Collectible

Description

Striking dark Sikhote-Alin iron meteorite shrapnel fragment in square glass jar, set on white sand, with black and white shooting star tag! A shooting star is one of the most spectacular, yet fleeting, occurrences in the night sky. Legend holds that if you close your eyes and make a wish on a shooting star, your wish will come true. Shooting stars also symbolize luck and protection. Now you can hold the rare cosmic power of shooting stars in the palm of your hand with our exclusive jar of shooting stars. Feel the wonder of the cosmos as you ponder the unearthly beauty of this incredible rock from outer space. No need to make your wish in haste - take all the time you need! This shooting star are yours to keep and enjoy for eternity. Iron meteorites come from large asteroids with molten cores that once orbited the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Extremely slow cooling of those cores, over millions of years, allowed nickel-iron alloys to crystallize into fantastic geometric structures knows as Widmanstätten Patterns. Much like snowflakes, the pattern of every iron meteorite is unique. Catastrophic collisions within the Asteroid Belt shattered some asteroids, sending pieces in all directions. Some of them eventually encountered Earth's gravitational pull, resulting in a fiery journey through our atmosphere at speeds up to 100,000 miles per hour. Super-heated to thousands of degrees Fahrenheit, the surfaces of these fragments melted to form beautiful sculptural indentations called regmaglypts or thumbprints — features that are unique to meteorites. This iron meteorite specimen acquired it's unique surface characteristics during flight through our own atmosphere. They are known as a shrapnel specimens — fragments which exploded during flight, due to atmospheric pressure or collision with another meteorite. Jar measures 2" x 1.5", the iron meteorite is +/- 1 gram and about the size of a pea. One centimeter scale cube for size reference.