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A slice of the dazzling Seymchan pallasite, cut on two sides, with large crystals of olivine in a nickel-iron matrix, polished to both sides, on custom stand.
5 x 3 x 1in. (12 x 9.5 x 2.5cm.)

81g.
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Pallasites are formed at the core-mantle boundary of an asteroid that experienced melting: molten metal from the core mixed with olivine crystals settling downwards from the mantle.

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