Own a piece of a comet! - Pica Glass impactites

Thanks to meteorites, you can own a piece of the Moon or Mars.

Did you know that thanks to impactites, you can own a piece of a comet?

Impactites are rocks formed when a meteor or asteroid slams into the Earth with great force, melting the target rock into a combination of earth rock and cosmic impactor. That is what happened thousands of years ago in what is now Chile's Atacama desert. The resulting rock is a bizarre slag-like material that resembles trinitite. Scientists are relatively certain the impacting body in this case was a comet. This material is called Pica Glass and I am one of the few dealers in the world offering it. I have specimens for every budget, from small sample-sized micromounts for study, to larger hand specimens for outreach or show-and-tell.

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Pica Glass specimens - https://galactic-stone.com/search.php?search_query=pica

Lunar specimens - https://galactic-stone.com/meteorites/meteorite-micromounts/lunar-meteorites/

Martian specimens - https://galactic-stone.com/meteorites/meteorite-micromounts/martian-meteorites/

Some scientific papers about Pica Glass :

Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile - https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/50/2/205/609354/Widespread-glasses-generated-by-cometary-fireballs

Hypervelocity Airburst Shower Formation of the Pica Glass - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022LPICo2702.2021B/abstract

EVIDENCE FOR DYNAMIC MELTING, EMPLACEMENT, AND CARBONACEOUS IMPACTOR ENTRAINMENT IN PICA GLASS FROM THE CHILEAN ATACAMA DESERT - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385372481_EVIDENCE_FOR_DYNAMIC_MELTING_EMPLACEMENT_AND_CARBONACEOUS_IMPACTOR_ENTRAINMENT_IN_PICA_GLASS_FROM_THE_CHILEAN_ATACAMA_DESERT

Thanks for looking and clear dark skies!

MikeG (curator, Galactic Stone and Ironworks)