hedgehog Moldavite - 3.76 g

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Over 20 years collecting meteorites; former museum curator and experienced restorer.

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Moldavite meteorite hedge hog from Besednice, Czech Republic, weighing 3.76 g and measuring 32 × 22 × 8 mm.

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hedgehog Moldavit from Besednice / Czech Republic with deep green colour.

Tektites are natural glass, generated by a huge meteorite impact.
By hitting the ground the kinetic energy from the meteorite was set free in a huge explosion, that vaporised the meteorite and the surrounding earth surface. Jets of rock steam were ejected from the new born crater. The steam jets cooled down in the higher atmosphere and condensed to glass that rained down up to hundreds of kilometres away from the impact.
The Moldavites where created 14.5 million years ago when a big meteorite hit the earth at the place that is now southern Germany and created beside the Moldavites, the Ries Crater.

3.76g 32 x 22 x 8 mm

International meteorite collector association member number #3503
scale cube is 1 x 1 x 1 cm


hedgehog Moldavit from Besednice / Czech Republic with deep green colour.

Tektites are natural glass, generated by a huge meteorite impact.
By hitting the ground the kinetic energy from the meteorite was set free in a huge explosion, that vaporised the meteorite and the surrounding earth surface. Jets of rock steam were ejected from the new born crater. The steam jets cooled down in the higher atmosphere and condensed to glass that rained down up to hundreds of kilometres away from the impact.
The Moldavites where created 14.5 million years ago when a big meteorite hit the earth at the place that is now southern Germany and created beside the Moldavites, the Ries Crater.

3.76g 32 x 22 x 8 mm

International meteorite collector association member number #3503
scale cube is 1 x 1 x 1 cm


Details

Name of meteorite
hedgehog
Type of meteorite
Moldavite
Weight
3.76 g
Origin (Region/ City)
Besednice
Country of Origin
Czech Republic
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