M 51 ring. Australian Opal Lighting Ridge Dark & meteorite

Unique piece

Extraordirany Opal Lightning Ridge Dark with a dominant vivid multicolored red rolling sparkle combined with metorite and yellow gold

Unique piece

Its name alludes to the first spiral Galaxy discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier in 1773

Lightning Ridge Dark Opal: 10.20 ct. Measures:18.7 x 13,2 x 7,1 mm. Certfied

Pattern: Dominant vivid multicolored red rolling flash pattern.

Origin: Allawah-Lightning Ridge (New South Wales, Australia). It was unearthed in 2019 in the Allawah Field just north of Lightning Ridge Township.

Meteorite: Sikhote Alin specimen: 2,5 g. Between 3.5 and 4 billion years old. Date and place of meteorite fall:12 February 1947 in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Russia.
- Chemical group: Iron IIAB . Mass: 23 t
- Chemical composition: 93,3 % Fe, 5.8% NI, 0.42% Co, 0.46% P and 0.28% S, with traces of Ga ( galenium) , Ge (germanium) and Ir (iridium)
- Fall coordinates: 46º 09´36″ N 134º 39´12″

The back of the meteorite is coated with gold.