Asteroid Belt Solar System Bracelet
Yes, this bracelet includes real fragments from the Asteroid Belt! Details below! "They resemble small stars so much as hardly to be distinguished from them. From this, their asteroidal appearance, if I take my name, and call them Asteroids." ~ William Herschel after making observations of Ceres and Pallas in 1802 Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring of rocky objects known as the Asteroid Belt. The bead at the center of this bracelet contains a mixture of different classes of meteorites (howardite, eucrite, diogenite) from a large impact basin in the southern hemisphere of Vesta, the second-largest object in the Asteroid Belt. Above: The Asteroid Belt Bracelet with Howardite NWA 10262 In addition to this custom-made, resin bead, we've included a selection of semi-precious natural stones to represent other classic bodies in the solar system: The Sun (Citrine), Mercury (Black Labradorite), Venus (Riverstone), Earth (Lapis Lazuli), the Moon (Silver Crazy Lace Agate), M