They are among the densest materials on earth and will stick very strongly to a powerful magnet. We thank all of our past customers and welcome all our new ones to the experience of meteorite collecting. It is a fine octahedrite distinguished by large fields of dense plessite. Iron meteorites were once part of the core of a long-vanished planet or large asteroid and are believed to have originated within the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Fragments in natural condition, many showing concave forms and fusion crusts. We have served the collecting and museum community -worldwide- through sales, exchanges, donations, and consultation. They are chemically distinguished and grouped according to the.
They consist mainly of iron-nickel metal with small amounts of. iron: Meteorite: Iron meteorites are made, almost completely, of iron and nickel metal. He spent the last two decades building one of the most trustworthy and respected meteorite businesses on the internet. Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of asteroids that melted early in their history. A meteorite composed of nickeliron and silicate minerals in roughly equal proportions also known as a siderolite. Mile High Meteorites founder and president Matt Morgan, oversees all operations of the business. Many of the meteorites we sell are used for meteorite jewelry, meteorite knives, inlays within dinosaur bone, and other artisanal forms. We offer many types of meteorites for sale, including: iron meteorites, stony-iron (pallasite) meteorites, achondrite meteorites, meteorites from the Moon and Mars, and historic meteorites with documentation. Imagine holding a steel ball bearing as big as a grapefruit and you'll get the idea. The easiest way to see the differences is often to examine the pattern that has been etched into the polished surface of a slice. As with all the meteorite families there are many subgroups in the iron meteorite family. A softball-sized iron meteorite will likely weigh five or six pounds, making it seem unnaturally dense. But, iron meteorites are actually far scarcer then the ones of the stone type. Mile High Meteorites was established in 1996, one of the first meteorite businesses on the internet and soon became the place where beginning and experienced meteorite collectors could purchase rare and exotic meteorites. Iron is heavy and most meteorites feel much heavier in the hand than an ordinary earth rock should.
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