My Wedding Ring… Made in Space
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I really like how it turned out. Thanks DY!
The 4-billion-year-old Gibeon meteorite, weighing between 50 and 70 tons, burst into smaller fragments high in the atmosphere and fell to Earth sometime between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago. The meteorite was discovered by the Nama people in Namibia thousands of years ago, a sneak peek into the iron age. They used this pure iron alloy to make strong tools and weapons (metal alloys found in meteorites are often the source material for "magic" swords and vorpal blades or lore). This iron-nickel alloy contains significant amounts of cobalt and phosphorus. First confirmed as a meteorite in 1838.
Gibeon meteorite is composed of an iron-nickel alloy that reveals a woven matrix pattern when cut. Formed by interwoven bands of kamacite and taenite alloys cooled very slowly over millions of years, this crystalline structure cannot be found on our planet. Like all iron meteorites, Gibeon contains remnants of the core portions of distant planets, but its exact origin in the universe is unknown.
