GENUINE SMALL MUONIONALUSTA METEORITE SLICE Widmanstatten pattern 2.2 cm 0.48 gm #7
This is a genuine piece of the Muonionalusta Meteorite from Sweden and this measures approx. 2.2 max across x 0.5 x 0.1 max thick cms and weighs app. 0.48 gms.
These pieces originate from Norbotten in Sweden and were found in 1906 and show a classic example of the Widmanstatten pattern (also known as Thomson structures). These patterns are formed by figures of long iron-nickel crystals. These form when meteoric iron cools down and Kamacite is exsolved from Laenite in the form of Lamellas.