Gibeon Meteorite With An Unusual Pattern

Gibeon Meteorite With An Unusual Pattern

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As the meteorite enter earth atmosphere it will suffer intense ablation and friction,creating fusion crust,regmaglypts and sometimes hole in the meteorite. in this unique(as far as I know)case it created a ghost face.

Wiki:

Gibeon is a meteorite that fell in prehistorique times in Namibia.It was named after the nearest town:Gibeon

In 1836 the English captain J. E. Alexander collected samples of the meteorite in the vicinity of the Fish River and sent them to London. There John Herschel analyzed them and confirmed for the first time the extraterrestrial nature of the material.

Between 1911 and 1913, 33 fragments of the meteorite were collected in the vicinity of Gibeon and brought to the capital Windhoek. They weighted between 195 and 506 kilograms (430 and 1,116 lb) and were first stored, then displayed at Zoo Park as a single heap. In 1975 a public fountain displaying the meteorite fragments was planned. The pieces were removed and stored at Alte Feste, where two of the fragments were stolen. The fountain was erected in Post Street Mall, with two empty pillars for the missing fragments. Since then, two more fragments were removed from the fountain, so that it displays only 29 today.