Peter Simon Pallas
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Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist. He studied natural sciences at various universities in
Pallas PS by Tardier grey
Title of the book Travels through the southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794
Pallas Estate in Simferopol
Headstone of Peter Simon Pallas in the Berlin-Kreuzberg cemetery
Pallasite
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The pallasites are a class of stony-iron meteorite. They are relatively rare, and can be distinguished by the presence of large olivine crystal inclusions in the ferro-nickel matrix.
Peter Simon Pallas
…transported to St Petersburg. Subsequent analysis of the metal showed it to be a new type of stony-iron meteorite. This new type of meteorite was called pallasite after him; the meteorite itself is named Krasnojarsk or sometimes Pallas Iron (the name given to it by Ernst Chladni in 1794). Several animals were…
A slice of the Esquel pallasite, clearly showing the large olivine crystals suspended in the metal matrix.
Eagle Station, ES group
Krasnojarsk meteorite
Brenham