A slice of a meteorite believed to contain 4,500,000,000-year-old material
A slice of a meteorite believed to contain 4,500,000,000-year-old material
This is a pallasite meteorite a rare slice of an ancient asteroid believed to have formed between its metallic core and rocky mantle over 4.5 billion years ago.
Those glowing crystal sections are olivine, meaning you’re looking at the shattered inner remains of a lost world from the dawn of our solar system.