Trinitite .80g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Phenakite on matrix Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District

Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District

This Gibeon meteorite fragment specimen is from an old collection we acquired

perched on white Albite matrix

please see dimensions and video showing measuring tape

detailed texture like an aged leather

Trinitite .80g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Phenakite on matrix Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky DistrictFormed on July 16, 1945, when desert sand melted under the intense heat of the worlds first atomic test, Trinitite is a rare historic glass. Collected in the 1940s50s before the site was closed, these preserved pieces are highly collectible relics of history. Size: 11 x 12 x 4mm Weight: . 80g Includes: 1. 25" Collector's box with label. History of Trinitite The detonation took place at 5: 29 a. m. on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity Site, about 35 miles