Wholesale lot of Aletai iron meteorites china xinjian armanty by the kilo

  
THIS LISTING IS FOR ONE KILO OF ALETAI WHOLE INDIVIDUAL METEORITES. THESE ARE SMALLER UNCUT INDIVIDUALS AND ARE VERY HARD TO FIND AT THESE SMALL SIZES. THE PICTURE SHOWS AN EXAMPLE OF 1 KILO INDIVIDUALS AND REPRESENT THE AVERAGE SIZES. PICTURE IS AN EXAMPLE ONLY AND NOT THE EXACT ONES TO BE RECEIVED.

The Armanty fragment in front of the Xinjiang Geological and Mineral Museum in Ürümqi. A small fragment of the Aletai meteorite with visible Widmanstätten patterns. On display at the Tianjin Natural History Museum. Related media on Wikimedia Commons. The Aletai meteorite, previously also known as the Armanty meteorite or Xinjiang meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites.

Classified as a coarse octahedrite. In addition to many small fragments, at least five main fragments with a total mass over 74 tonnes have been recovered, the largest weighing about 28 tonnes.

Among the irons of the Aletai meteorite, three pieces can be distinguished, which at the moment apparently occupy the 5th, 6th and 9th places among the largest meteorites found on Earth. Along its long axis is at least 430 km (and presumably even larger). It is by a margin the largest meteorite debris scattering field found on the planet, believed to be due to its unique stone skipping-like trajectory.