NWA 15428

Northwest Africa 15428
Pallasite, Found in Algeria 2022

Pallasite specimens often display large olivine crystals embedded in an iron-nickel matrix. Pallasites are extremely rare and are believed to have formed in asteroidal collisions that occurred an estimated 4.5 billion years ago when iron from an asteroid mixed with the material in the mantle of another, larger asteroid.

The total known weight is 1,800 grams. Of which 700 are smaller pieces. Leaving only 10 full slices in circulation. These beauties are also stabilized.