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Meteorite Hunter Finds Space Debris and Crafts it into Jewelry–Millions
and Billions of Years Old
By Good News Network -Jul 9, 2023


SWNS
A man who hunts for pieces of comets that fell to Earth has created a
business by making the ancient space debris into jewelry.

Emil Davidsson has made a name for himself showcasing his skill for
hunting meteorites.

The 31-year-old from Buenos Aires, Argentina, documents his adventures collecting meteorites in online videos, then crafts the rocks into
jewelry creations he sells online.

His pendants cost around $100 made from small fragments of the
meteorites he estimates to be between one million and 4.5 billion years old.

He also makes watches with prices starting at around $395, and rings for
$130.

Emil has been hunting for meteorites for a decade and says they are “extremely rare and difficult to find.”

He has been on serious expeditions to both the coldest place on
Earth—the Arctic Circle—and the driest place on Earth—the Atacama Desert—to find his treasured space debris.

“Every year, I would go on expeditions lasting four to five months above
the Arctic Circle.

A special metal detector he uses has pulse indicators that emit
high-amperage signals, creating electromagnetic fields around the
detector. When there is a metal object “the field collapses” creating a spike in voltage that is represented as sound.

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If the meteorite is not on the surface he has to dig down into the soil
by hand, which can sometimes be up to ten feet deep (3 meters). The
finds are truly out of this world.

Making the jewelry
“Each type of meteorite requires a different process since all
meteorites are unique,” explained the craftsman who resides in Bali, Indonesia. “For example, iron meteorites, are composed of 92-99% iron.

“After we cut them into slices, we need to stabilize them using various methods because if we don’t do that they tend to rust.

Additionally, they use nitric acid to reveal the meteorite’s distinctive structure known as the Widmanstätten pattern—one of the most remarkable features of certain meteorites (pictured above, left).

“It forms through the slow cooling of molten metal over millions of
years resulting in the formation of exquisite crystalline 3D patterns.

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“This unique crystallization process cannot be replicated on Earth as it requires extreme outer space conditions over millions of years.”

“These meteorites originated as remnants from the formation of our solar system, making them older than our planet itself. By holding a meteorite
in your hand, you are touching the oldest material you could ever come
into contact with.

“Some meteorites come from the Asteroid Belt located between Mars and
Jupiter (so) they have also traveled millions of miles through space.”

Eventually, due to chance and the gravitational pull of Earth, they fell randomly in remote locations—and thousands of years later, Emil finds
some of them with his metal detector.


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