Meteorites

A meteorite is a non-terrestrial natural object originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth's surface. Meteorites are billions of years older than our planet Earth, travelling in time and space long before our planet was a ball in space (circa 4.6 billion years ago). They can be made up of a wide range of minerals, ice and rock or they can be metallic often Iron or Nickel and occasionally rarer metals, they may also contain gemstones often Beryl and peridot, this particular meteorite class is known as pallasite. A meteorite can range in size from microscopic to extremely large. Most meteorites derive from small astrological objects called meteoroids, but are also produced by the impacts of asteroids.
Sikhote-alin meteorite 80 kg

On the 12th of February 1947 280 miles north east of Vladivostok a rarely seen meteor shower blazed into the Earth’s atmosphere at an approximate velocity of 50,000 kilometres per hour. This large specimen from the famous Sikhote-alin fall displays orientation and regmalypts ("thumbprints"). A thin fusion crust provides evidence that this feature was not produced by impact with the ground.
The fall of Sikhote-alin left a trail of smoke and dust, which was more than 30 kilometres long and lingered for several hours; light and sound of the fall were observed for two hundred miles around the point of impact.

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