MUONIONALUSTA METEORITES FOR SALE

Muonionalusta is one of the oldest meteorites found to date, estimated at 4.5653 billion years old! It impacted in northern Scandinavia near what is now the Sweden-Finland border around one million years ago. It experienced four Ice Ages before it was found in 1906 near the Finnish Muonio River. Hence, its name translates as "downstream of the Muonio River" in Finnish. It is an IVA (Nickel-Iron) fine octahedrite meteorite, and about 230 kilograms have been recovered from a strewn field of about 130 square miles, all north of the Arctic Circle. It is most likely the ejected mantle or core of a planetoid.

Besides being one of the oldest and one of the largest meteorites ever discovered, Muonionalusta is also the first meteorite discovered to contain stishovite, a very rare form of quartz formed under immense pressure.