Admire Meteorite | Admire Meteorite Nodule — Gems From Outer Space

Now offered is a mini version of lot 118. Pallasitic meteorites, a combination of the mantle and core of a differentiated asteroid, are the most beautiful extraterrestrial substance known. Like most pallasites, Admire formed at the mantle-core boundary of an asteroid about 4.5 billion years ago. It was here that molten metal from the asteroid’s core mixed with chunks of stony olivine from the mantle which later crystallized. When a catastrophic impact shattered Admire’s parent asteroid approximately 100 million years ago, a fraction of the material was dispatched into a collision course with Earth. It was on a farm outside of the town of Admire (current population 177) in Lyon County, Kansas that Admire was discovered when it found itself on a collision course with a plow in 1881. This specimen, replete with bright olivine crystals suspended in its natural iron-nickel matrix, originates from a recent recovery. Pallasites are exceedingly rare, representing less than 0.2% of all known meteorites. Chunks of extraterrestrial olivine are suspended in the iron-nickel matrix in this engaging bit of extraterrestrial real estate.