• Meteorite Chunk - Patrick Adair Supplies
  • Meteorite Chunk - Patrick Adair Supplies
  • Meteorite Chunk - Patrick Adair Supplies
  • Meteorite Chunk - Patrick Adair Supplies
  • Meteorite Chunk - Patrick Adair Supplies
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Patrick Adair Supplies

Meteorite Chunk(s)

Meteorite Chunk(s)

$39.99 USD
$39.99 USD
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These pieces of Muonionalusta meteorite are left from our jewelry-making process and are a perfect addition to jewelry for any space enthusiast. The pieces provide a lustrous silver highlight to any ring while also adding the sentimental value that the ring houses a piece of cosmic history. 

The pieces are irregularly-shaped scraps from our ring makers, and therefore, they are not large enough to a make a ring. They are intended to be made into shavings or fragments for ring inlay, or smoothed into beads or a small pendant for necklaces. They can also be used as a paperweight or conversation piece. Meteorite is truly extraterrestrial! 

You can etch the pieces and bring out the Widmanstätten patterns, also known as Thomson structures, which are unique to meteorites. This octahedrite pattern is created during the extremely slow cooling of the metal, which takes millions of years to form and cannot be duplicated on earth.

The mostly iron-nickel-cobalt composite has a range of 6-7 on the Mohs hardness scale. See this blog post from PAD site:  https://patrickadairdesigns.com/blogs/blog/interesting-meteorite-facts-you-may-or-may-not-know-about

Now offered in five sizes! Choose a minimum weight of 20, 40, 60, 80, or 100 grams. You may receive more than one piece to get the selected weight.

If you let us know your intended purpose (break up for inlay, make shavings, or keep whole) it will help us choose your piece.

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Customer Reviews

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Ernest Popovich

I wanted shaving but had to settle with the chunks.

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Ben Sumner
Very hard.

Was only able to a few small pieces to break off.

Hi Ben, thanks for taking time to leave a review. We'll privately send you some tips on how to get meteorite inlay or shavings from the chunk.

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Jeff Sanders
Dont Know what it is for sure.

I cant tell if its meteorite or not. It looks and acts like just any chunk of metal. I pound it with a hammer to break it into pieces to use as inlay. But it just mushrooms like any pice of metal would. So bottom line I cant use it. Even if I drill it or shred it into small enough pieces to use, I cant sell it as meteorite. I cant call it meteorite because I don't know what it really is. That would be misleading and false advertising. So I simply cant use it, so I wont get any more.

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for purchasing our meteorite! The meteorite we sell is authentic and comes from the Muonionalusta meteorite. The pieces are the remnants from our affiliated ringmaking company, Patrick Adair Designs, which manufactures meteorite rings. You can etch the pieces and bring out the Widmanstätten patterns, also known as Thomson structures, which are unique to meteorites. This octahedrite pattern is created during the extremely slow cooling of the metal, which takes millions of years to form and cannot be duplicated on earth. Since you have flattened the pieces, the pattern may not be as obvious, but if you have a less-hammered piece, you should be able to bring out the pattern.

The Muonionalusta meteorite is 91.5% iron and 8.5% nickel by mass, so it does seem like a regular chunk of metal. However, it also contains trace amounts of rare elements like gallium, iridium, germanium and at least six others. Check it out online!

The iron-nickel composite provides a lustrous silver highlight to any ring while also adding the intrinsic value that the ring houses a piece of cosmic history. When you craft a ring with meteorite pieces purchased from our shop, you can confidently say it has real meteorite!

Thanks,
PAS

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Matthew Battisti
40 gm Meteorite chunk

Pretty cool piece! Still trying to figure out how I can make shavings from it!

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Ben Sumner

Hard to break into small pieces but worth the effort.

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