{"product_id":"natuural-aletai-iron-meteorite-1100-grams","title":"Natural Aletai Iron Meteorite 1100 Grams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAletai meteorite is an iron meteorite originating from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, formed 4.5 billion of years ago within the metallic core of a shattered ancient asteroid and is world-renowned for its unique chemistry, visual beauty, and Earth's longest recorded strewn field. In its natural, raw state, the meteorite exhibits a dark brown to rusty-ochre weathered crust covered in shallow, thumbprint-like indentations known as regmaglypts. When cross-sectioned and etched with a weak acid, it reveals a coarse octahedrite structural pattern characterized by interlocking, geometric bands of low-nickel iron (kamacite) and high-nickel iron (taenite) that form intricate metallic lattice patterns called Widmanstätten structures. Because of the distinct crystalline orientation of these iron-nickel alloys, polished slices exhibit chatoyancy—a metallic shimmer or flash when tilted under light—and often showcase bright, mirror-like inclusions of the rare phosphide mineral schreibersite.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52821652242719,"sku":null,"price":1025.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/3139\/7407\/files\/IMG_8015.heic?v=1787878381","url":"https:\/\/meteoritefoundry.com\/products\/natuural-aletai-iron-meteorite-1100-grams","provider":"Meteorite Foundry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}