Iron meteorite fall from 1947. Flight-oriented specimen

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This is a very nice specimen of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite. Sikhote-Alin fell on February 12, 1947 at 10:38 AM in Siberia, Russia. A massive fireball streaked over all of Eastern Russia and was seen by tens of thousands of people. A very famous painter, Medvedev was just sitting down to paint a village scene when the fireball passed overhead. He immediately painted what he saw, which is now forever memorialized in a postage stamp issued by Russia on the 10th anniversary of the meteorite fall. This meteorite was asteroid size, it is estimated to have weighed several HUNDRED TONS, and many tons have been recovered. It impacted in the deep forest of the Sikhote-Alin mountains, and created many craters. The meteorite exploded many times, high in the atmosp, so thousands of pieces rained destruction on the forest. Hundreds of trees w blown down and shredded by the metal shards like bomb shrapnel, thus the name for the twisted ripped pieces found. Some pieces are individuals, complete pieces that burned high up, and show the typical regmaglypts of iron meteorites. The shrapnel pieces are shredded metal, ripped apart by the unimaginable force of air pressure on a body moving at over 15000 miles per hour! This is incredible to imagine the forces needed to shred solid iron just from AIR! I have acquired a few nice peices, this is one of read more

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