Trinitite 1.30g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Polished smoky quartz This may make items appear

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Classification: Ordinary Chondrite

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Trinitite 1.30g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Polished smoky quartz This may make items appearFormed on July 16, 1945, when desert sand melted under the intense heat of the worlds first atomic test, Trinitite is a rare historic glass. Collected in the 1940s50s before the site was closed, these preserved pieces are highly collectible relics of history. Size: 12 x 18 x 4mm Weight: 1. 30g Includes: 1. 25" Collector's box with label. History of Trinitite The detonation took place at 5: 29 a. m. on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity Site, about 35 miles