The Brenham Meteorite Company specializes in museum
quality meteorite specimens, particularly rare-find pallasites. We have
a large collection of high quality rare mesosiderites, including
the largest of it's kind.
Meteorites—fragments of natural material from outer space that impact Earth—typically originate from the asteroid belt (the remnants of a planet between Mars and Jupiter which broke apart during the formation of the Solar System). There are three types of meteorites: stones, irons and stony-irons—with stony-irons being the rarest. When particles of stone and iron in the stony-iron meteorites are “fused” together in space, they are called mesosiderites. When the stone in a stony-iron meteorite crystallizes into olivine or peridot, it is a pallasite—which when cut and polished are among the most beautiful naturally occurring substances known to exist. Less than 1% of all meteorites are pallasites—all of which originate from the asteroid belt. |