Aletai Stone-Skipping Meteorite China via_enabled a symbol of emotion and

a symbol of emotion and joy

revealing its intricate patterns

Weight: 85 gram

resin oozed from ancient trees

✓ Treatment: Heat only — no dyes

Aletai Stone-Skipping Meteorite China via_enabled a symbol of emotion andThe Aletai meteorite holds a record that no other fall on Earth can match: a strewn field extending at least 430 kilometres the largest meteorite debris field ever recorded. Scientists believe this extraordinary dispersal was caused by a unique stone skipping atmospheric trajectory, in which the meteorite entered Earth's atmosphere at a shallow angle, bounced off the upper atmosphere like a stone skipping across water, and then re entered at a