Trinitite (Trinity Glass) 1.17g | Trinity Test Site, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA

Trinitite, also known as Trinity Glass. This rare historic artifact is green glass formed by the fusing of sand during the world's first atomic bomb explosion test, named Trinity. The Trinity test site is about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, today this area is known as White Sands Missile Range. The blast occurred at 5:29am on July 16th, 1945. The explosive power was equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT. The explosion created a glass-lined crater, 10ft deep and nearly 1,100ft wide. Most pieces of Trinitite currently in collections were recovered in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1952, the United States Atomic Commission bulldozed and buried the crater. Collecting Trinitite was banned and it's illegal to collect Trinitite still today. Material: Trinitite (Trinity Glass, Atomic Artifact) Locality: Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA Size Category: Thumbnail Size: 15 x 12 x 6mm  Weight: 1.17g Includes: 1.25" collector's box with label. One interesting c