Campo del Cielo Meteorite - SOLD 55.02g pietersite and our star

and our star

so each piece is sure to be unique

Both specimens ship in their own glass-topped riker display case

but this mineral has been valued since prehistory when pyrite was used as a fire starter by Neanderthals and our other human ancestors

Campo del Cielo Meteorite - SOLD 55.02g pietersite and our star"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