The Seymchan meteorite was found in Magadan District, Russia in 1967. Full of olivine space gems.
It is the result of the violent destruction of what would otherwise have been a planet during the formation of our solar system. It comes from the boundary between the silica rich mantle and the iron-nickel core of a now extinct planet, torn away by a catastrophic impact with another planet or asteroid. A mix of solid stone forming olivine crystals in suspension in liquid metal (iron-nickel) was flung into space to cool over millions of years in a vacuum and zero gravity, forming this beautiful mixture (which could not be created on Earth). Only 1% of all meteorites are pallasites, the most visually dazzling of all meteorites.
5.7kg and 12″ x 12″ Pallasite-PMG
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