Cosmic Impact Collection - Meteorite & Tektite Gift Box

Four Genuine Pieces from Beyond Earth

This extraordinary collection brings together visitors from outer space and the glass born from their violent arrivals. From ancient asteroid fragments to impact-melted earth, each piece represents a cosmic collision that shaped our planet's history. These aren't just rocks—they're travelers from the asteroid belt and witnesses to catastrophic events.

Campo del Cielo Meteorite - Argentina

This iron meteorite fragment is older than Earth itself, formed 4.5 billion years ago in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Around 4,000 years ago, it crashed into northern Argentina as part of a massive meteor shower, creating a field of craters spanning 60 square kilometers. What you're holding is almost pure iron and nickel, forged in the core of an ancient planetoid that broke apart long before our planet had life. The rough, pitted surface shows where Earth's atmosphere melted and sculpted it during its fiery entry. Some pieces show regmaglypts—thumbprint-like depressions created by the intense heat. Campo del Cielo meteorites are some of the heaviest objects you can hold for their size, and their metallic surface can develop a beautiful rust patina over time. This is genuine stardust, older than the sun, that has traveled millions of miles through space to reach your hands.

Aletai Meteorite - China

Discovered in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China, Aletai meteorites are iron-nickel fragments from a spectacular fall that occurred thousands of years ago. Like Campo del Cielo, this meteorite originated in the asteroid belt and is around 4.5 billion years old—a remnant from the violent early days of our solar system when planets were still forming. The Aletai fall created one of the largest known meteorite strewnfields in Asia, with individual pieces ranging from tiny fragments to multi-ton masses. The metal composition shows a crystalline structure called a Widmanstätten pattern—visible when the surface is etched—that only forms when molten metal cools incredibly slowly over millions of years in the zero-gravity of space. This pattern is impossible to replicate on Earth and serves as proof of the meteorite's extraterrestrial origin. The weight and magnetic properties make these pieces unmistakable.

Indochinite Tektite - Southeast Asia

This glossy black glass was created around 788,000 years ago when a massive asteroid or comet slammed into Southeast Asia with such force that it instantly melted the earth itself. The impact launched molten material high into the atmosphere where it cooled and solidified while falling back down, creating these aerodynamically sculpted glass pieces. Indochinites are found scattered across Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia—evidence of an impact so powerful it spread debris across thousands of kilometers. The smooth, sometimes teardrop or dumbbell shape shows how the molten glass twisted and spun through the air. Unlike meteorites which come from space, tektites are Earth material transformed by cosmic violence. The jet-black color and glassy texture make them beautiful to hold, and some specimens show bubbles or flow lines frozen in time. Scientists still debate the exact location of the impact crater that created the Indochinite strewnfield.

Libyan Desert Glass - Egypt

This mysterious golden-yellow glass formed approximately 29 million years ago in the Sahara Desert, and its origin remains one of geology's great puzzles. Most scientists believe a meteorite or comet exploded above the desert with such intensity that it instantly melted the sand into pure silica glass without leaving a crater—an airburst event. The resulting glass scattered across 6,500 square kilometers of remote Egyptian desert. The translucent yellow to greenish color comes from the pure silica content, and many pieces show bubbles, swirls, and dark inclusions of unmelted material. Ancient Egyptians prized this glass highly—a carved scarab made from Libyan Desert Glass was found in Tutankhamun's tomb, where it had been set as the centerpiece of a pectoral jewel. Holding this glass up to light reveals its inner structure and natural beauty. It's remarkably light compared to the iron meteorites in this collection, and its smoothed edges show 29 million years of desert wind erosion.

This collection represents the most dramatic events in our planet's history—cosmic collisions that reshaped landscapes and created materials found nowhere else. Two ancient iron visitors from the asteroid belt, one piece of Earth transformed by impact heat, and one mysterious desert glass still debated by scientists. Together, they tell the story of how space constantly interacts with our planet, sometimes violently, always spectacularly. Perfect for space enthusiasts and anyone fascinated by Earth's cosmic connections.