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A blurry photo of our host, Joseph Boesenberg, looking strange, but trying to show off the pallasite called Esquel. Esquel is cut to a uniform thickness of about 4 millimeters, allowing light to show through the its green olivine crystals. Olivine is the major mineral in the mantle of the earth other planetary body mantles that have undergone melting and differentiation. - Joseph Boesenberg, Earth & Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History