Beautiful 179 gram, flight oriented individual of The SIKHOTE-ALIN meteorite. This IIB, Coarest Octahedrite Iron Meteorite Fell to Earth on February 12, 1947, near Sikhote-Alin Russia, Maritime Territory.

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