Seattle meteorite

Please signup for our meteorite sales newsletter to receive notices about special offers and discounts. Our newsletter will be sent out a maximum of four times per year. Thank you for visiting! The Moon Dust is securely preserved in a plastic container inside each display box.

Each display box contains mg of NWA lunar meteorite dust displayed in a black plastic glass top display box. These displays make wonderful gifts and come packed in a silver foil gift box. Many of the pieces offered here have at least one edge with interesting brown eucrite fusion crust.

This is a very visually interesting meteorite with its large clasts breccia structure. It is a Fine Octahedrite type meteorite that when polished and etched displays a beautiful crystalline pattern. Plating the pieces in Rhodium both protects the meteorite iron from rust and makes the pendant hypoallergenic.

Rhodium is also a whiter precious metal than either silver or platinum making it ideal to show off these cosmic treasures. Moldavite Tektite Moldavites contain more silica than any other type of tektite which produces their green color.

Bohemian moldavite types have a greater SiO2 content than the Moravian moldavite types. Bohemian moldavites are mostly variations of green from pale to a rich bottle green color. As is often the case other pieces of the same material from the same location are found.

The pieces here exhibit the attractive grayish color and most have the dark crystal inclusions typical of this meteorite. The prepared slices have been smoothed to a low polish of grit on one side and polished after even finer grinding to a high polish on the other side.

These slices of Imilac Pallasite are polished on all sides and show the wonderful mix of metal and golden olivines. Some of the slices have interesting inclusions of troilite and other meteorite minerals often bordering the bright nickel iron. Imilac is rarely seen for sale as affordable sized polished part slices.

Iron Meteorites come from the broken metal cores of destroyed asteroids. Iron meteorites are made almost entirely of solid nickel-iron metal and display beautiful internal structures when polished and etched. A couple of excellent examples are Canyon Diablo and Sihote-Alin meteorites. Chondrite Meteorites are often called Ordinary Chondrites to distinguish them from other stone meteorites.

Chondrite meteorites form the largest family of meteorites and come in many varieties. All chondrites share the fact that they have small spherical structures called chondrules as can be seen in most of the meteorite slices. Our meteorite beads are handmade from ordinary chondrite. Carbonaceous Chondrite Meteorites have chondrules but also have the element carbon in their composition.

Some Carbonaceous Chondrites contain organic compounds and primitive protein molecules. This class of meteorites is especially important to research scientists. Carbonaceous meteorites are among the rarest types of space rocks with the most well known being the Allende meteorite. Achondrites are meteorites without chondrules.

Achondrite meteorites come from larger asteroids where minerals melted by pressure within the asteroid or where surface collisions resulted in the melting of asteroid material.

The giant asteroid Vesta is believed to be the parent body for many achondrites of the Howardite, Eucrite, and Diogenite families of meteorites. Lunar and Martian Meteorites are stones that arrived on Earth from asteroid impacts on the Moon and Mars. Their lunar and Martian origins have been confirmed through intensive analysis in laboratories using amongst other evidence, the Apollo Moon Rocks, and Martian atmospheric isotopes as references.

The origins of Lunar Meteorites and Martian Meteorites are well confirmed today. New for we created our Moon Dust display boxes for sale. Stony-Iron Meteorites are the family of meteorites represented by the Pallasites and the Mesosiderites. Stony-Iron Meteorites contain approximately half nickel-iron metal. In the case of the Pallasites, the other portion is olivine crystals, the same mineral as peridot the semiprecious gemstone.

Pallasites are beautiful extraterrestrial jewels once sliced to expose their crystals. The Draconids meteor shower, which runs from Oct. In Puget Sound, the sun sets at p. The Orionids run from Oct. If you plan to be out and about to see this shooting star show, sunrise in Seattle is around a.

It will appear over latitudes covered by the vast Southern Ocean, with very little land mass. This meteor shower is a real puzzler. Janches told Space.

The thin crescent moon won't interfere with your ability to see the Draconid meteor shower — a bit of a sleeper, typically offering a handful of meteors an hour. The shower favors early-evening viewing because that's when Draco the Dragon, the head of the constellation that is the shower's radiant point, stands highest in the sky.

In rare instances, Draco the Dragon awakens and may spew a thousand or more shooting stars an hour in what's called a meteor storm or outburst. That happened in , when or more Draconid meteors were seen an hour in Europe. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario in Canada predict Draconid outbursts in and , but nothing out of the ordinary is forecast for this year's meteor shower.

The Orionid meteor shower produces about 20 meteors an hour. The October hunter's moon is full on Oct. The Orionids, produced by dust grains left behind by the ancient comet Halley, appear to radiate from the constellation Orion the Hunter but can be seen anywhere in the sky. Unlike the Draconids, the Orionids are best viewed in the pre-dawn hours. The Orionids are fast-moving and sometimes produce fireballs, which could be bright enough to overcome the glare of moonlight.

Taurids, Nov. Crew members said the search was challenging because the seafloor at about feet in depth was soft and muddy. Any large meteorite fragments would likely have been swallowed up by the muck on impact. Surface swells of up to 12 feet also roiled the water during the operation, reducing visibility.

The two bits of rock are about 2 to 3 millimeters in diameter, or about a tenth of an inch. Fries hopes to determine the chemical composition of the fragments. The meteor was unusual because it broke into several large fragments, indicating that it was made up of harder material than all of the other space rocks Fries has tracked.

British scientists on the HMS Challenger expeditions , which helped lay the foundation for modern oceanography, ran magnets through seafloor sediment and extracted tiny, metallic spherules that they correctly surmised had fallen from space, Brownlee said. In , Brownlee and his colleagues dragged a pound magnetic sled they called the Cosmic Muck Rake , across the bottom of the Pacific in water more than three miles deep.

They pulled up more than , of the spherules — most far smaller than the fragments discovered by the EV Nautilus.