This 11 pound meteorite was found in Sericho, Kenya in 2016. The stone washed away in mild acid more easily than the metal matrix, accentuating the amalgam of different materials that could only be formed in the zero gravity of space.
It is severe looking and features a honeycomb of quite sharp metal over its entirety and multiple circular ‘pockets’ where Olivine crystals associated with the pallasite likely eroded.
25 x 13 x 10 cm, weighs 5,150 grams
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