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A piece of genuine Campo del Cielo Meteorite set in a .925 Sterling Silver pendant.   A gnarly piece of ancient outer space you can wear with you every day.  The way this has been crafted, only the Meteorite itself shows from the front, with the silver fitting around the edges and back of this pendant.  Comes in a pouch with a 45cm Stirling Silver Chain.

Dimensions:
Pendant 2.6cm x 1.7cm x 0.8cm, 9g.
Silver Chain 45cm.

Meteorite:
Campo del Cielo, Argentina.
This is a Nickel Iron rough octahedrite meteorite, classification IAB.  Believed to have fallen to earth over Argentina between 4000 and 6000 years ago.

Elemental Iron-nickel:
Fe-Ni.

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A piece of genuine Campo del Cielo Meteorite set in a .925 Sterling Silver pendant.   A gnarly piece of ancient outer space you can wear with you every day.  The way this has been crafted, only the Meteorite itself shows from the front, with the silver fitting around the edges and back of this pendant.  Comes in a pouch with a 45cm Stirling Silver Chain.

Dimensions:
Pendant 2.6cm x 1.7cm x 0.8cm, 9g.
Silver Chain 45cm.

Meteorite:
Campo del Cielo, Argentina.
This is a Nickel Iron rough octahedrite meteorite, classification IAB.  Believed to have fallen to earth over Argentina between 4000 and 6000 years ago.

Elemental Iron-nickel:
Fe-Ni.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo houses a Meteoric Iron Knife from King Tutankhamun’s Tomb.  Ancient Man would have thought Meteorites to be a gift from the skies.  Man made weapons like swords, knives, spears and arrow heads from meteorites.  Found in the form of meteorites that have impacted the Earth’s surface.

A few rare terrestrial gabbros and sulfide deposits do contain elemental iron-nickel deposits, these are the only truly native iron-nickel.  The two elements are combined with 6% to 75% nickel.

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STAR DUST

MOLDAVITE           METEORITE           TEKTITE

Meteorite
Fe-Ni
Elemental Iron-nickel

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo has a Meteorite Iron Knife from King Tutankhamen’s Tomb.  I would have loved to taken a few Pics when we visited but it was prohibited.  Ancient Man would have thought Meteorites to be a gift from the skies or Gods.  Man made weapons like swords, knives, spears and arrow heads from meteorites.  Natural iron is not necessarily “native” to Earth since it rarely occurs on the Earth’s surface by terrestrial processes.

Shooting stars, meteoroids or meteors are bits of interplanetary material falling through Earth’s atmosphere and heated to incandescence by friction? not really.  Becoming meteors for the few seconds they streak across the sky and create glowing trails.  The material comes from a dying star which means they are Star Dust

Scientists estimate that 44 tonnes (44,000 kilograms, about 48.5 tons) of meteoric material falls on the Earth each day.  Sometimes the number increases dramatically – these events are termed meteor showers.  Occurring annually or regular intervals as the Earth passes through the trail of comet dust debris.

Rocks from space that fall to the ground are meteorites. Most meteorites found on Earth are pebble to fist size, but some are larger than a building. Early Earth experienced many large meteorite impacts that caused extensive destruction.

One of the most intact impact craters is the Barringer Meteorite Crater in Arizona.  Giant at about 1 kilometer across, formed by the impact of a piece of iron-nickel metal 50 meters in diameter.  50,000 years old and well preserved.  A very large asteroid impact 65 million years ago, which created the 300 kilometer wide crater.   Chicxulub crater contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs.  Yep they were turned into Star Dust.

The process

The process is quite fascinating so I’ll add more detail here.  Imagine a rock of steel or Star Dust flying so fast in a vacuum at around -273degC, then hitting a pressurized air bubble.  This creates a pressure wave at the front and a vacuum sucking behind.  Due to the PVT Pressure Volume Temperature relationship of air on Earth we get.  An increased pressure induces an increased temperature at the front and a decreased pressure induces a decrease of temperature at the back, we are talking about the air surrounding the Meteoroid here.  Remember it’s not a Meteorite until it has impacted the Earth or a Meteor until it has burnt up.  Increased Temperature and Pressure is proportional, one follows the other.

The air increases temperature so much at the front of the Meteoroid that it turns to a plasma phase (the fifth state of mater) and radiates heat to the Meteoroid.  The front of the Meteoroid melts off forming a smaller Meteoroid, the center of gravity of the Meteoroid changes so it tends to turn around and wobble.  This is when the Meteoroid breaks up upon entry, you know that’s why the space shuttle has heat barriers.  Then and meanwhile the back is seriously cooling down to well below zero and freezing.  Considering they start off from space at -273deg C and traveling at 11 km/sec to 72 km/sec.  When they land at 20deg C, 15kPa atmospheric pressure, they have traveled for 100 plus kilometers taking a short time.

Then we look at what’s happening at the back end of the Meteoroid.  It’s very cold and even though in a positive pressure atmosphere there is a serious negative pressure or vacuum causing cooling and even cavitation.  This cavitation creates a loud crackling noise.  It happens when a fluid is squeezed then the pressure is released rapidly in turn causing a boiling effect of bubbles.  This can happen in a water pipe when the fluid velocity is too great for a pump or valve or the pressure drop is too great across the valve or pump.  This cavitation causes small bubbles of negative pressure which implode and when they implode due to velocity they have a powerful pinch on surfaces like the back of the meteoroid.

I’ll add my little theory here.  Sometimes what can happen is if the Meteoroid is traveling very fast and at more of a perpendicular to the face of the Earth and it is of a larger size – this takes place.  The pressure wave frequency increases rapidly as it gets closer to Earth causing an increase in energy so great that it basically goes nuclear just like the death of a Star going Supernovae.  I suspect a bit like Tesla’s little earth quake oscillator machine that caused a localised earthquake of a building when it gets up to the resonant frequency.  In the last second of a Star’s life Iron is formed and then very shortly after many of the other heavier larger numbered elements are formed in smaller quantities.  Any hoo after dialog with the retired professor this is what I propose happens to the Meteoroid which is born of the Star.  The Meteoroid does the same as the Stars last second of life and starts to form elements.  Yes you have waited long enough – that’s how I suspect gold is found on the surface of this Earth, some of it is formed by Meteoroids.  Of course some of it is from Meteorites too.  Thinking about it being here from the beginning of Earth formation is not very likely due to it’s density – it really is heavy stuff.  Over the billions of years it would have worked it’s way towards the center of Earth.

The math would be pretty heavy using several equations with dynamic variables.  Mass of the object is changing along with it’s size, velocity is reducing and the temperature is changing increasing in heat on average with decent.  The pressure is increasing in frequency and magnitude in waves, on top of this the attraction some call gravity is also increasing.  We would also need some references of the like – PE chart of Iron Nickle and of air.  Along with some others such as trajectory angles.  Lets not forget there are some electromagnetic and static attraction interactions occurring too.

Off topic a little but helpful.  When a lightning bolt strikes it rapidly cools the surrounding air even to well below freezing.  So there are electrical phenomenon here also associated with that of the Meteoroid.  Reminds me of a time when a few dudes from New Guinea came to see us with what they thought was a Diamond Meteorite that they saw fall from the sky and hit a tree and the tree burnt to the ground (“BS”).  If you found a fresh Meteorite (like within a few minutes of impact) it would be so cold that it could give you cold burns if you touched it.  Remembering that it has come from a place that is -273degC and not had time or enough energy added to heat it up all that much, especially smaller meteorites.  How ever a Meteor which burns up will be gone from radiated heat.  It turned out when we tested this rock with a Presidium it was a few kilos of dark blue corundum.  Which was an interesting exercise and find in it’s self.  I also remember my Nana saying “See that bright Star up there boys”,”Yes” my Brother and I replied.  She continued “If you ever get lost just follow it and it will lead you home”. BS again.  Nothing like a good story.  I like to wish upon a Star anyway, you know for that colossal lotto win. I wish upon all the Stars for that colossal lotto win.

There are three major types of meteorites: the “irons,” the “stones,” and the stony-irons. Although the majority of meteorites that fall to Earth are stony.  These heavy objects are easier to distinguish from Earth rocks than stony meteorites.  Meteorites also fall on other solar system bodies. Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found the first meteorite of any type on another planet.  It discovered an iron-nickel meteorite about the size of a basketball on Mars in 2005.  Then found a much larger and heavier iron-nickel meteorite in 2009 in the same region.

Thank you and I hope you have enjoyed reading some science, a new theory, some BS and a story.

 

PS

I spoke to the Professor about this and he advises there would not be enough pressure and that it is likely that water inside the meteoroid is responsible for the explosion.  We are talking about an explosion like the Russian Meteor of early 2013 or the Tunguska event.  Absolutely fascinating and a bit of food for thought here is if you were looking at this on an old CRT (TV screen) we can accelerate electrons to near the speed of light.  Crikey I could go on about this stuff for hours and hours, in fact I do.  Thinking about it further it could be the water exploding causing the like going nuclear type explosion.  Many theories are proven wrong and some inspire others to form and prove new ones also inspiration and innovation comes from more understanding of how things work.

Toodeloo

 

Stuart Clark

[email protected]

rockncrystals.com.au

01 08 2023

 

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Weight9 g
Dimensions3 × 2 × 1 cm
color

Metallic Silver Grey

METEORITE SILVER PENDANT

A piece of genuine Campo del Cielo Meteorite set in a .925 Sterling Silver pendant.   A gnarly piece of ancient outer space you can wear with you every day.  The way this has been crafted, only the Meteorite itself shows from the front, with the silver fitting around the edges and back of this pendant.  Comes in a pouch with a 45cm Stirling Silver Chain.

Dimensions:
Dimensions:
Pendant 2.6cm x 1.7cm x 0.8cm, 9g.
Silver Chain 45cm.

Meteorite:
Campo del Cielo, Argentina.
This is a Nickel Iron rough octahedrite meteorite, classification IAB.  Believed to have fallen to earth over Argentina between 4000 and 6000 years ago.

Elemental Iron-nickel:
Fe-Ni.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo houses a Meteoric Iron Knife from King Tutankhamun’s Tomb.  Ancient Man would have thought Meteorites to be a gift from the skies.  Man made weapons like swords, knives, spears and arrow heads from meteorites.  Found in the form of meteorites that have impacted the Earth’s surface.

A few rare terrestrial gabbros and sulfide deposits do contain elemental iron-nickel deposits, these are the only truly native iron-nickel.  The two elements are combined with 6% to 75% nickel.

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