Imagine my glee upon seeing this piece of the Mundrabilla Meteorite as the very first thing upon entering Adelaide's South Australian Museum! You may remember it, and Mundrabilla, from this earlier post. A fellow nerd pointed out later that I should have put a pencil down next to it for scale----it is about the size of a large coffee table, maybe just under two meters across. It is an iron meteorite and this piece weighs about 2500kg. It is one of the largest and most famous meteorites in the world.
While this is kind of like a librarian sorting books by color, it is so much more aesthetically pleasing than sorting by, say, lattice structure or chemical composition. I'm sure this display has inspired many a budding geologist.
Amorphous silica in main stairwell. Always beautiful.
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