{"product_id":"the-pallas-orrery","title":"The Pallas Orrery","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe orrery was an 18th-century scientific instrument used to demonstrate the motion of celestial bodies. Each one was built by hand for the small group of natural philosophers who studied the solar system in the decades after 1772.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pallas Orrery returns to that form. A disc of authenticated Sericho pallasite — iron and nickel laced with translucent olivine crystals, recovered in 2016 from Habaswein, Kenya (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lpi.usra.edu\/meteor\/metbull.php?code=57951\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMeteoritical Bulletin entry\u003c\/a\u003e) — is set at the centre of two concentric rings \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ein polished titanium-grade steel. The pallasite, formed in the molten core of a destroyed planet during the first hundred million years of the solar system, is older than the Earth itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePallasites are the class of meteorite catalogued in 1772 by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas. The Pallas Orrery is forged from the meteorite this brand is named for, set in a form that honours the science of his era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-finished by a \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eskilled artisan. Suspended from a polished cable chain. Signed certificate of authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorn at the chest, it carries a fragment of what existed before this world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PALLAS 1772","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58076621209925,"sku":null,"price":255.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1063\/6509\/2165\/files\/WhatsAppImage2026-05-26at06.30.37.jpg?v=1779792062","url":"https:\/\/pallas1772.com\/products\/the-pallas-orrery","provider":"PALLAS 1772","version":"1.0","type":"link"}