Jewelry designers can purchase fragments from a wide range of meteorite falls and finds. Buying Loose Fragments and Meteorite Jewelry Photo courtesy of and Artistic Findings. These meteors consist of cometary debris and enter the atmosphere as the Earth passes through comet tails.Ĭustom-designed sterling silver pendant, featuring a cabbed black onyx and a piece from the Gibeon meteorite find (Namibia, 1836).
Meteor Showerĭuring a meteor shower, meteors do, indeed, look like they’re raining across the sky. Just as with gemstones, the source or provenance of space debris may add to the interest - and possibly the value - of meteorite jewelry. The following terms describe specific types of meteors and meteorites and the circumstances of their discovery. Since meteorites travel at such high speeds, they form craters on impact. While larger meteorites make easily spotted craters, smaller meteorites create smaller, harder to notice craters. Those that manage to strike the surface of a planet are called meteorites. Not all meteors survive their journey through the atmosphere. Meteors streaking through the Earth’s atmosphere are often referred to as “shooting stars,” though, of course, they’re not stars. At this point, the proper term for the object is meteor. Once a meteoroid enters a planet’s atmosphere, its surface begins to burn up and leaves a trail visible across the sky.
Photo courtesy of and Heritage Auctions. This meteorite might have originated from a meteoroid created by an impact on Mercury. Some meteoroids formed when impacts on Mars or the Moon ejected material into space.
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