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Meteorite with Twin
Stripes
The ring shown is a titanium ring with two
1mm
inlays of genuine Gibeon Meteorite that fell to Earth in
prehistory. The meteorite was discovered in Namibia in
South Africa in 1838. It has a unique crystalline grain
structure called Widmanstatten lines that were caused by the
meteorite slowly cooling over millions of years as it hurtled
through space. It is estimated to be over 4 billion years
old! The government of Namibia has stopped export of the
meteorite, so it will become more rare as the years go by.
The thin inlays add just enough mystique to the classy and
understated ring.
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