Exquisite Sterling Silver Shooting Star Iron Meteorite Pendant – Mounionalusta Found in Norrbotten, Sweden
Discover the celestial beauty of our sterling silver shooting star pendant, meticulously crafted with a genuine iron meteorite fragment from the famous Mounionalusta find in Norrbotten, Sweden. Measuring 1.25" x 0.75", this unique piece of cosmic jewelry is not only a fashion statement but also a little piece of space history.
Iron / Fine Octahedrite IVA (Of)
8.4% nickel and trace amounts of rare elements – 0.33 ppm gallium, 0.133 ppm germanium and 1.6 ppm iridium. It also contains the minerals chromite, daubréelite, schreibersite, akaganéite and inclusions of troilite. Studies have shown it to be the oldest discovered meteorite impacting the Earth during the Quaternary period, about one million years ago. It is quite clearly part of the iron core or mantle of a planetoid, which shattered into many pieces upon its fall on our planet.
Since landing here, this meteorite has experienced four ice ages. It was unearthed from a glacial moraine in the northern tundra.
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