Meteorites Are Landing In Luxury Jewelry Designs Around The World And Animating Maine's New ...

Featuring earth's largest collection of Mars meteorites, along with a third of all moon rocks extant on our planet, the newly expanded Maine Mineral & Gem Museum in Bethel has been wowing visitors since its December 2019 opening While texts from various civilizations link meteorites to important events, scientists believe that meteorites and comets most likely brought water and life to earth While there are about 300 different meteorites on display in Space Rocks: The Stifler Collection of Meteorites, the MMGM also displays the second largest piece of the asteroid Vesta, over 40,000 mineral specimens, 19 interactive exhibits and a research lab.

Co-founded in 2009 by longtime meteorite collectors Dr Lawrence T.P Stifler and Mary McFadden, JD.

to preserve and display Maine's minerals, gems and mining history, and to provide research and educational opportunities for students at all educational levels, the MMGM Store also sells jewelry set with pieces from such meteorites as Seymchan, Campo del Cielo, Sikhote-Alin and Muonionalusta In an intriguing development, Muonionalusta, which is probably the oldest meteorite known to science, is now enjoying rock star status as a luxury jewelry material Upmarket Muonionalusta meteorite jewelry designs incorporating 18-karat gold, diamonds and other luxury materials dominated the booth of the Lausanne, Switzerland-based fine jewelry firm, Coeur de Planete,, which markets meteorite jewelry collections under the brand name Meteorite Luxury.

While New York-based designer David Yurman offers a men's jewelry collection made from Gibeon meteorite material, Los Angeles-based designer Christopher Kreiling creates what is arguably the world's largest meteorite jewelry. . Source