Chelyabinsk meteorite micro individuals - 15 g

The meteor, about 20 meters in size, traveling toward the Earth at 18 kilometers per second, which struck on February 15, 2013, was greatly decelerated by the Earth's atmosphere. The energy released caused a colossal explosion whose shockwave damaged 3,700 buildings. The meteor was torn apart, so a meteor shower rained down in thousands of pieces, often meteorites weighing only a few grams, but pieces weighing several kilograms were also recovered. The Chelyabinsk meteorite fall, due to its violence and its good video documentation, will be found in every future literary meteorite work. Also, for the first time, sound recordings of a superbolide were made. Chelyabinsk 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 that formed in earlier asteroid collisions.

micro individuals 15 g

the glass jar is 40 x 20 x 20 mm

International Meteorite Collector Association member number #3503