Triple Meteorite Pendant by Charles Albert

3 different types of meteorite are featured in this pendant by Charles Albert. Campo de Cielo, an iron nickel meteorite from Mexico sits at the top left. A black Indo-China tektite sits at the top right. Below them sits a wide triangle, point down, of moldavite-the green meteorite from the Czech Republic. The 3 are stationary with an open center space between them, dangling on a high shine bail. 0110015

*Anyone finding moldavite of interest is highly encouraged to research it! (Especially its infinite metaphysical applications)*

Fifteen million years ago, a meteorite a mile wide collided with southern Germany. The collision created Ries Crater, 15 miles wide, at the present site of the city of Nordlingen. On impact, sandstone melted and was propelled out of the melt zone. Silicon in sandstone quartz cooled to form glass "tektites." In 1836, Franz Zippe, the minerals curator for the Vlastenecke Museum in Prague, named this glass "moldavite." Moldavite is harder than manufactured glass and melts at a higher temperature.
A "strewn field" is an area where tektites of the same age, petrology (rock type), chemical properties and physical characters are found. Tektites are not found in the source crater. The Central European Strewn Field is a relic of the Ries Crater impact (mainly the Western Czech Republic). At impact, tektites averaging an inch in diameter were ejected at about 1 mile per second behind the meteorite and about 5 miles per second in front. Cooling was not instant, because atmospheric gases were heated also. Some particles fell to Earth within 10 minutes. Others were propelled to high altitude and were airborne for hours, so that the area of the strewn field was influenced by weather and the Earth's rotation. Tektites from the center of Ries Crater were strewn four times further than those from the rim. The meteorite approached at an oblique angle from the west-southwest, creating a strewn field to the east-northeast, in the Czech Republic. Moldavites formed from the upper 130 feet of sandstone. At a distance of 3 miles from the impact, pressure and heat were below the melting point of quartz, so no moldavite formed there.

Read more: The History of Moldavite | eHow.com www.ehow.com/about_5283177_history-moldavite.html#ixzz1D9uH4r00

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