TRANSLUCENT Sericho Pallasite FULL Meteorite Slice 182g, Kenya

Description

Beautiful translucent and complete Sericho meteorite slice
with many green, yellow, orange olivine crystals. Coated with resin to protect against rust.
Name: Sericho. This is an official meteorite name.
Found: 2016
Country: Kenya
This is 1 of 62 approved meteorites classified as Pallasite.
The pallasites are a class of stony-iron meteorites. They consist of olivine crystals in an iron-nickel matrix.
The Sericho pallasite formed at the mantle-core boundary of an asteroid about 4.5 billion years ago.