About the product:

🪨 Mineral type: Meteorites, Pallasites, Sericho

⛓️ Metal type: Rhodium-plated 925 silver

📐 Pendant dimensions: 36 millimeters in total height

📐 💎 Stone dimensions: 26 millimeters high x 20 millimeters wide x 11 millimeters thick

⚖️ Weight : 7.2 grams

✨ Treatment: None

📜 Certificate: Zen Curiosity

🎁 Comes with a black waxed textile cord with 2 discreet sliding knots for an elegant, adjustable, adaptable to all body types, ideal as a gift or a treat for yourself!

⏳ When sawn and polished, pallasites become very aesthetic and acquire a high market value due to their rarity (1% of meteorite falls).

Pallasites are meteorites composed of euhedral or xenomorphic olivine crystals embedded in an iron-nickel matrix, often exhibiting Widmanstätten patterns. Density: 4.5 to 7.

The pallasites do not take their name from the goddess Pallas Athena, nor from the asteroid (2) Pallas, with which they have no connection whatsoever, but from the Prussian zoologist and naturalist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811)1.

In 1772, Pallas learned of the existence of a 680-kilogram piece of metal found in 1749 in the Siberian mountains, relatively close to Krasnoyarsk (Russia)2. Pallas arranged for its transport to Saint Petersburg and studied it upon his return to the imperial capital.

The analysis shows that it is a new type of meteorite, named pallasite by Ernst Chladni in 1794 (the asteroid Pallas, however, was not discovered until 1802, therefore after these meteorites had received their name).

The meteorite itself, initially known as the "Pallas iron", is now called the Krasnoyarsk meteorite.

Pallas's description enabled the German physicist Ernst Chladni to convince the scientific community that meteorites were indeed objects of extraterrestrial origin.

The metal/silicate composition of the "Pallas iron" had no plausible relationship with the rocks in which it was discovered, and on the contrary closely resembled other objects found elsewhere in the world.

📋 Mineralogical Fact Sheet