Meteorite End Section – Muonionalusta

Meteorite End Section – Muonionalusta

Iron, Fine (IVA) octahedrite

Kiruna, Norrbotten, Northern Sweden

Discovered 1904

Measuring 11 x 7.5 x 2 inches (28 x 19 x 5 cm) and weighing approximately 10 lbs. (approximately 4.5 kgs ). With a custom stand. 

From a massive fall with numerous specimens, this meteorite end cut exhibits the small fine octahedrite crystal pattern of the Widmanstatten lines, which was caused by the slow cooling of the large planetary mass over hundreds of millions of years. Believed to have collided with the Earth approximately 800,000 years ago, the meteorites from this fall most likely landed on the mile thick glacier which covered northern Scandinavia during the vast majority of the last 800,000 years.