Collection: Muonionalusta Meteorite Pendants

Muonionalusta was discovered in 1906 by two children who were kicking stones while watching cattle near a village in the northern part of Sweden. One of the children kicked a very heavy rusty “stone” and took it back to the village where a few years later it was identified a an iron meteorite.

The Muonionalusta is probably the oldest meteorite known to man. It impacted the Earth during the Quaternary period, about one million years ago. It is clearly part of the iron core or mantle of a planetoid, which scientists believe it may have formed over 4.5 Billion Years ago. It shattered into many pieces upon its fall on our planet. Since landing here this meteorite has experienced four ice ages. It was unearthed from a glacial moraine in the northern tundra.

Muonionalusta meteorites contain meteoric iron and nickel; its nickel concentration being high enough to produce a very unique interweaving cross-section like pattern. This pattern is known as the Widmanstatten pattern, discovered by Alois von Widmanstatten in 1808 and is a phenomenon exclusive only to meteorites. The patterns, although looking like a fairly simple cross-section of lines, is actually a purely randomized pattern that are unique to each and every meteorite and cannot be replicated!

After all, who doesn't want to own something from outer space that is billions of years old?