Here is an outstanding example of 4.6 billion-year-old extraterrestrial metal made up, for the first time, as an elegant piece of fashion jewelry. This rare iron meteorite is a real beauty. It shows exactly the patterns of original metal matrix of the parent asteroid from which it was derived, and many of the surface features created from the friction of its 50,000 mile per hour descent into our oxygen atmosphere from ice cold space. It measures approximately 1" long and is very dense and heavy for its size. It has a very high concentration of extra-terrestrial metal, so it is very cool to the touch, and making you feel like you're wearing a gold nugget around your neck. It's very nice.
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