This is beautiful.
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) May 5, 2020
It's a piece of a rare pallasite meteorite, with green olivine crystals mixed with iron–nickle alloy.
This used to be the core–mantle boundary of a differentiated planetary body, blasted apart 4.5 billion years ago.
This is the inside of a long-lost world ❤️ pic.twitter.com/K69KXE18dc
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May 05, 2020 at 10:26PM
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