This three-piece set brings together three different products of the Henbury impact in the Northern Territory of Australia: a 9.15g complete individual of the Iron meteorite, a 14.37g fragment of iron shale and a 0.27g Henbury Pearl of impact glass. They are presented together in a display frame, with the Pearl mounted in a window on an illustrated card of the crater field.

Henbury is classified as an Iron, IIIAB Medium Octahedrite. The crater field near Henbury Station holds more than a dozen small craters, formed when an Iron meteorite broke apart before striking the desert thousands of years ago. The iron individual in this set is a surviving piece of that metal. The shale fragment began as meteoritic iron too, but long exposure to moisture in the desert soil has slowly oxidised it into layered iron oxides, the usual fate of Iron meteorites that lie buried for millennia. The Pearl is impact glass, formed from rock melted by the heat of the impact and thrown out as droplets that cooled rapidly. Studies of Henbury impact glass have shown that it contains a measurable contribution of meteoritic material mixed with the melted local rock.

For collectors, a set like this tells the Henbury story in a single frame, from intact metal through weathered shale to impact melt, with secure Australian provenance and a direct link to one of the country’s best-known crater fields. It suits collections built around Iron meteorites, impact sites or Australian material, and it makes a clear teaching piece for anyone explaining what happens when a meteorite reaches the ground.