Wabar Pearl - Impact Glass - Complete Individual - 0.84g - Saudi Arabia
- Prix ordinaire
- $356.00
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- $356.00
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- $535.00
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WAB-05/04
This 0.84g Wabar Pearl is a plump, rounded droplet of black glass, its surface covered in small raised blisters and pits from gas escaping as it cooled. It is presented in a display box with a collection label and an image of the Wabar craters.
Wabar Pearls come from the Wabar crater field in the Rub’ al Khali, the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia. The site was brought to wider attention by the explorer Harry St John Philby, who reached it in 1932 while searching for the lost city of Ubar. The craters formed when an Iron, IIIAB meteorite struck the open sand, and luminescence dating suggests the impact took place only a few hundred years ago, which is remarkably recent for an impact site.
The Pearls are small droplets of impact glass. The heat of the impact melted desert sand together with some of the meteoritic iron and nickel, and the molten droplets were thrown out and cooled rapidly as they fell, which gives them their black, glossy surfaces and rounded or teardrop forms. For collectors, a Wabar Pearl is a direct record of a very young impact event at one of the most remote meteorite localities on Earth, and well-formed individuals are seldom available.