Cook Islands 2007 $5 Brenham Pallasite Meteorite 25 g Silver Proof Coin

Cook Islands 2007 $5 Brenham Pallasite Meteorite 25 g Silver Proof CoinIn February 1886 Mrs. Eliza Kimberly found a strange black chunk of stone in the Brenham Fields in Kiowa, Kansas. She identified it as a meteorite straight away but could only let it be specified more precisely by a scientist several years later. It was a very rare meteorite a pallasite. A pallasite is a stony-iron meteorite type. It was named after the German academic Peter Simon Pallas who first described this rare group of meteorites in the years 17721777. They are considered to be very beautiful and consist