
Aletai Meteorite Sphere
IRON - IIIE
Circa 4.5 billion y/o
Weight: 676 g
Diameter: 5.4 cm
Provenance
Discovered in Xinjiang Province, China.
A magnificent meteorite sphere, cut from the famous Aletai meteorite and polished to reveal the shimmering iron-nickel matrix and the beautiful crystalline Widmanstätten pattern — a striking, criss-cross structure unique to extraterrestrial iron.
£9,500