Chelyabinsk meteorite Mini individuals - 7 g

The meteor, about 20 m in size, that barreled toward Earth at 18 km per second on February 15, 2013, was strongly decelerated by the Earth's atmosphere. The energy released caused a massive explosion whose shockwave damaged 3,700 buildings.

The meteor was torn apart, so a rain of meteorites in thousands of pieces fell down, often only a few grams in weight, but pieces weighing several kilograms were also recovered.

The Chelyabinsk meteor fall will be found in every future literary meteorite work due to its intensity and its good video documentation.

Sound recordings of a superbolide have also been made for the first time.

Chelyabink shows very different textures; the asteroid was not homogeneous. Besides bright unshocked rock, some pieces show fine nets of shock veins, others consist entirely of dark melts and melt breccias formed in earlier asteroid collisions.

mini individuals 7 g ~ca 25 pieces

the glass jar is 30 x 17 x 17 mm

International meteorite collector association member number #3503