Authentic Mars Rock Blossom Necklace

Description

Did you think you could own a piece of Mars? Well, you can—and you can even make them part of your jewelry collection.

We know that pieces of the Red Planet fell here because of the robot Viking spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1976. Six years after those landings, Drs. Johnson and Bogard were studying an unusual meteorite here on Earth, with a most unusual name — Elephant Moraine 79001, found in Antarctica in 1979. The two scientists made an astonishing discovery: tiny amounts of gas trapped within vugs in the 79001 meteorite were a close match to the thin atmosphere of Mars, as recorded by the Viking landers. The experiment was later repeated and confirmed by looking at several other Martian meteorites, clearly indicating their origin point. And what a fiery and furious life they’ve had! Blasted off the surface of their home planet by other meteorite impacts (the impactors likely being large asteroid fragments), they wandered in space until falling here.

This necklace is handmade using 18k rose gold and pure crystal glass, which is domed to magnify the Martian meteorite fragments contained with them. Moissanite further adorns the pendant, which contains dust and fragments from Martian meteorite Northwest Africa 6963. Discovered in Morocco in 2011, NWA 6963 is a shergottite, which are igneous rocks; that means they likely formed when magma or lava on Mars cooled and solidified.

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