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Type: Stony-Iron. Pallasite (PAL)
Location: Minsk, Gomel Province, Belarus

As asteroids crashed into each other breaking them apart, chunks of their partially melted internal layers eventually found their way to Earth.

Approximately 823 kilograms of this beautiful Pallasite have been recovered since 1810. Scientific tests have indicated that the final processes of heating and cooling which formed the olivine crystals within Brahin's parent body happened near the time of the formation of the solar system, just over four billion years ago. Slices of this stony-iron meteorite show a metal matrix of iron and nickel with olivine crystals embedded within the matrix. Olivine is also known in the gem world as Peridot.

As noted, Pallasites contain primarily a matrix of iron and nickel along with about equal parts of olivine. This metal-silicate mixture leads scientists to believe that they represent the mantle of their differentiated parent body. Like other meteorites, Stony-Irons show evidence of melting and recrystallization. The name Pallasite came from the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas who described a meteorite found near Kransnojarsk, Siberia in his journals in 1772.