Campo del Cielo Meteorite - SOLD 48.74g rockinaboxpaleolithic This specimen is a basalt

This specimen is a basalt slab from the Kuznetsk Basin in southwestern Siberia

with its intriguing jigsaw suture pattern

Arginiro Gonzales and his guest

Also included is a folding Apollo 11 Information Card

The opal fields here date to the Cretaceous when Central Australia was home to an enormous inland sea

Campo del Cielo Meteorite - SOLD 48.74g rockinaboxpaleolithic This specimen is a basalt"Moon defends himself with a spear tipped with a head carved of the soft wood of the bottletree, which breaks apart at the first impact. He also has a club made of the same wood which is too light to cause any harm. The Jaguar tears at his body, pieces of which fall on the earth. These are the meteors, which three times have caused a world fire." ~ Oral myth of Toba cosmology as recorded by Alfred Mtraux, 1946. Thousands of years ago, a massive metal