Name METEORITE
Variety PALLASITE
Origin Brenam Meteorite, Haviland Crater (Kansas) USA
Hardness
Composition Fe,Ni, Peridoto
Crystaline sys.
Size   11x7,5x0,35 cm
Weight 134 gr




Description:
Pallasite are a rare meteorite type (Less than one percent of all meteorites that fell on the earth belongs to this group). Erroneously is to associate their name with the asteroid Pallas but their actual name is after the German naturalis Peter Pallas. The Brenam is a stony-iron meteorite that containing numerous crystals of peridot wich our specimen is a fragment, was found in 1882 of about 20 fragments with a total weight of 1,000 kilograms around the Havilland impact Crater (Kansas, USA). More fragments were found later, including one of 454 kilograms the total amounting to about 4.3 tonnes. Our specimen is from Kansas Meteorite Museum and Nature Center at the Haviland Crater.


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