Trinitite 2.25g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA garnet sand with cotton candy bicolor

with cotton candy bicolor

The piece has well-formed crystals

Size: 53mm W x 50mm H x 48mm D

a natural glass created during a meteorite impact

sparkling inclusions and glassy luster

Trinitite 2.25g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA garnet sand with cotton candy bicolorFormed 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: 16 x 20 x 6mm Weight: 2. 25g 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