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The Brutalist-inspired watch, dubbed the B/1M, was made from part of the Muonionalusta meteorite, the remains of which were first discovered in the Swedish village of Kitkiöjärvi in 1906.
The Muonionalusta meteorite (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈmuo̯nionˌɑlustɑ], Swedish pronunciation: [mʉˈǒːnɪɔnalːɵsta]) [1] is a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million years BCE.
Expert Bob, the owner of a meteorite-recovery lab, was brought in to authenticate it. He saw that a magnet was attracted to the meteorite and concluded, "That rock is older than this planet.
The Starry watch line can cost up to $260,000 if you spring for a dial created from a meteorite. Mark Zuckerberg's newest flashy accessory isn't another chain necklace — it's an ultrarare watch.
Since the characteristics of lonsdaleite are unknown to most people outside of scientists trained in geology and mineralogy, the names "lonsdaleite" and "hexagonal diamond" have frequently been used in the fraudulent sale of ceramic artifacts passed off as meteorites on online e-commerce sites and at street fairs and street markets, with prices ...
The Search for Our Beginning: An Enquiry Based on Meteorite Research into the Origin of Our Planet and of Life (1983) (with A.W.R Bevan and A.L. Graham) Catalogue of meteorites : with special reference to those represented in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London (1985) (with Andrew Graham) Meteorites: The Key to Our Existence (1992)
Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001 [1]) is a fragment of a Martian meteorite that was found in the Allan Hills in Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of American meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. Like other members of the shergottite–nakhlite–chassignite (SNC) group of meteorites, ALH84001 is thought to have originated on Mars ...
The exact worth of a meteorite varies depending on the specific type of meteorite in question. An 82-pound iron meteorite originating from an asteroid recently sold for $44,100 — about $540 per ...