Darwin Glass from Tasmania Australia 5.25g Individual Impact Glass Pallasite It is an achondrite meteorite

It is an achondrite meteorite that fell in Ardèche

It was one of those stones that was given to the Prince of Satriano

This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites classified as lunar troctolite melt breccia

and chromite

Darwin Glass from Tasmania Australia 5.25g Individual Impact Glass Pallasite It is an achondrite meteoriteDarwin glass is an impactite. Its a glass made up of a part of the earths crust that melted when an iron meteorite crashed into western Tasmania almost one million years ago. This impact generated a large amount of energy (enough to melt the crust, picture probably the equivalent of several atomic bombs), and created the Darwin Crater. Many craters around the world have glass which formed from the heat of the impact. But, the Mount Darwin Crater has