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Pallasite – PAL
Admire, Lyon County, Kansas (38° 42'N, 96° 6'W)
89 mm x 51 mm x 39 mm
222.3 grams
Unlike many olivine-rich meteorites, this specimen of the Admire pallasite was not cut and polished. It features a mixture of crystallized chunks of the mantle of an asteroid suspended in what was the asteroid’s molten iron core. This material became liberated when its parent body shattered following a collision with another asteroid. This event—and possibly subsequent, less-energetic collisions—sent this material on a 100-million-year collision course with Earth.
Admire was named after the place where the first specimen was found in 1881—Admire, Kansas. It was a different kind of collision that resulted in this discovery… a collision between a meteorite with a farmer’s plough.
Suspended in the metallic iron-nickel matrix are green-to-caramel hued crystals of extraterrestrial olivine and peridot—the birthstone of August. On one side there is a half-inch green-hued crystal aggregate; on the other there is a large recess from where an even larger crystal aggregate once existed. Originating from an asteroid that no longer exists, this is a fascinating, pocket-sized bit of extraterrestrial real estate. Modern cleaning.
