Meteorites, Ryazan Oblast, Russia
Dronino meteorite composition
Dronino Iron
Seven celestial stones in a single rhythm above the table.
3 000 000 ₽ · In stock — Gimenei shopping centre
- Epoch
- Before life began
- Age
- ≈ 4.5 billion years
- Origin
- Ryazan Oblast, Russia
- Weight
- 7 kg
- Classification
- Iron meteorite (Dronino, ataxite — with no visible crystalline pattern)
- Ref.
- R–0302
Dronino is an iron ataxite meteorite found in Ryazan Oblast in 2000. Its shower of fragments had been scattered across the field long before the discovery: separate pieces lay in the soil like dispersed parts of a single celestial body, each with its own relief of melting and corrosion.
Seven such fragments are brought together. Each preserves traces of cosmic flight and long residence in the soil: fusion crust, weathering pits, and transitions from dark corroded areas to bright metal. Their substance is older than Earth — almost pure nickel–iron from the interior of a shattered protoplanet.