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Space & Beyond Box - NASA Collection
Celebrate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration! Gear up and explore NASA with custom apparel, desk accessories, and more. Contents of this box include: Space Particles: NASA Edition - In this issue, you'll explore Saturn's small wonders, past and present...
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Space & Beyond Box Exoplanets Collection
Take a trip outside of our solar system to explore exoplanets with the products in the Space & Beyond Box. Study with an exoplanet globe, flashcards, t-shirt, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Exoplanets Edition - Explore...
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Space & Beyond Box Nebulae Collection
Tour the nebulae with the products in this Space & Beyond Box. Explore their wonder and beauty with flashcards, a crystal model, a mug, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Nebulae Edition - Explore the many kinds of...
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Jezero Crater Regolith
Get your hands on simulant of the Jezero Crater! Engineered to be chemically and mechanically identical to soil in the crater where Perseverance touched down in February 2021, this regolith is a mixture of dust, soil, broken rock, and other organic materials.
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Space & Beyond Box - Solar System Collection
Take a trip through the solar system with the Solar System Collection. Study the solar system with an exclusive Pluto globe, a book that will guide you through the night sky, and much more.Contents of this box include: Space Particles:...
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Space & Beyond Box - Mars Collection
This Space & Beyond Box includes items related to Mars, the Red Planet. Get hands on with a custom globe, a 3D topographic map, and a Mars atlas!Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Mars Edition - In this issue,...
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Space & Beyond Box - Milky Way Collection
Explore the Milky Way! Learn about galaxies with a Milky Way globe, flashcards, a poster, and more. Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Milky Way Galaxy Edition - Explore how planets get their water, the affect of exploding stars...
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Space & Beyond Box - Jupiter Collection
This Space & Beyond Box includes items related to Jupiter, the king of the planets. Get hands on with a custom globe, an planetary notebook, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Jupiter Edition - Dive Deeper into...
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Moon Dust Vial
Moon Dust Vial If you look at the Moon through a telescope, you will immediately notice that much of its surface is covered by craters. Some of these may be volcanic in origin, but many or most are meteorite craters...
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Solar System Mineral Kit
Explore moons and planets through exciting mineral specimens! This Astronomy magazine exclusive Solar System Mineral Kit, created by the editors at Astronomy magazine, is the ideal way to introduce students and astronomy enthusiasts to earthly minerals that represent the planets, moons, and asteroids...
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Space & Beyond Box - Stars Collection
Get ready to explore the stars with this this Space & Beyond Box that includes a unique globe of the sun, constellations rocks glass, James Webb telescope pin, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Stars Edition -...
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Lunar Highlands Specimen
The Moon may be thousands of miles away, but a small piece is available with the Lunar Highlands Classic Riker Box Specimen. This lunar dust material is acquired from the lunar meteorite NWA 5000 and hand crafted into a Moon...
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Mars Dust Vial
Mars Dust Vial with Certificate of Authenticity This quaint glass vial contains genuine Mars meteorite 'dust'. From Aerolite. Mars meteorite dust has been collected in their preparation laboratory, when a larger specimen is sawn into slices...similar to how sawdust is...
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Triceratops Bone
Triceratops lived during the Cretaceous period and were prevalent in South Dakota in the Hell Creek Formation. This specimen derives from this same location. Triceratops belonged to the Ceratopsids family which meant they were quadrupeds with bony frills, horns, and...
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Cadmium Element Round - 5g
Cadmium is a soft, silvery-white metal and is like zinc and mercury. The use of cadmium has been slowly decreasing due to its toxicity. Cadmium used to play a predominant role in corrosion resistant plating on steel while its compounds...
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Mighty Mosasaur Pocket Fossil
With its strong teeth, the mighty Mosasaur swam during the Cretaceous period catching its food and dominating the seas. Each Mosasaur had dozens of sharp teeth between their jaws and could grow up to 56 feet long. This warm-blooded reptile...
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Vanadium Element Round
Vanadium is named after a Scandinavian goddess of beauty and fertility due to the large number of colors found in vanadium compounds. It is a silvery gray hard metal and is mainly produced in China and Russia from steel smelter...
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Germanium Element Round - 1g
Germanium is like Silicon but its color has a greenish tinge. It rarely appears in high concentration and is named after the country of Germany because of the origin of the scientist who discovered it. Uses include fiber-optic systems, infrared...
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Meteorite Exploration Kit
This Astronomy magazine exclusive Meteorite Kit is the ideal way to introduce students and astronomy enthusiasts to the various types of meteorites. Each kit includes 6 meteorite samples and 3 meteorwrong samples, each in individually labeled cases for easy identification. Also contains a loupe magnifier and magnet for further investigation. A 16-page educational booklet...
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Apollo 11 Command Module Foil
Own a piece of history with this Apollo 11 Command Module Foil fragment. Initially aboard the space shuttle Columbia, this fragment of foil helped to protect astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their journey to the Moon and...
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Zirconium Element Round - 5g
Zirconium is grayish white in color and is solid at room temperature. It is highly resistant to corrosion but is highly flammable in powder form. It is mainly used as a refractory or opacifier but can be used in small...
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Tellurium Element Round - 1g
Tellurium is a rare, silver white element that is also mildly toxic. Its primary use is copper and steel alloys where it can improve machinability. Since it is used in solar panels and semiconductors it is considered a technology critical...
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Tantalum Element Round - 1g
Named after the Greek god Tantalus, Tantalum is a rare, blue gray transition metal that is highly corrosion resistant. It is in the refractory metals group since it is highly resistant to heat and water. Tantalum is a technology critical...
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Samarium Element Round - 1g
Samarium is a hard, silvery metal and is found in Earth’s crust. Samarium is commercially used in samarium-cobalt magnets, which is a strong permanent magnet. It is also used as a radioisotope samarium-153 which is the main component of the...
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Indium Element Round - 3g
Indium is one of the softest metals and is named after the indigo blue line in its spectrum. It is considered a technology critical element since it is critical in the establishment of modern technologies. It is one of the...
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Insect in Baltic Amber
Imagine being trapped in amber for 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 years! Each sample of these insects trapped in amber displays an insect that was captured from a treasure trove of fossilized insects from the Baltic Sea. Dating back to the Eocene...
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Titanium Element Round - 1g
Titanium has grown in popularity due to its excellent properties. Light, strong and corrosion resistant, titanium is the luxury version of steel. Titanium has become the gold standard for metal products that are presented as high end and high tech. ...
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Carbon Element Round
Carbon is one of the first elements to make up the periodic table. It is nonmetallic and is available to form covalent chemical bonds due to its atom making four electrons. Due to its atom bonding together in diverse ways,...
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Libyan Desert Glass
Formed from an asteroid or comet airburst explosion hitting silica-rich sands, these specimens of Libyan Desert Glass date back roughly 28,500,000 years. Each glass sample is derived from the southeastern spur of Africa’s Great Sand Sea and is yellow green...
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Zinc Element Round - 3g
Zinc is a hard and brittle metal at most temperatures and has a bluish white coloring. It is part of many alloys including brass, aluminum, gold iron and many more. Zinc is important to the human body as well as...
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Mammoth Hair
This specimen of mammoth hair dates back 19,551 years! Found near the Indigkra River in Russia, this tuft or hair is a small piece of history of the ancestors of the modern African Elephant. Mammoths stood 10-12 feet at the...
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Rhenium Element Round
Rhenium is one of the rarest metals found on Earth with an average concentration of one part per billion. It has the highest boiling point of any stable element and is named after the river Rhine in Europe. Rhenium is...
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Gadolinium Element Round - 3g
Gadolinium is a silvery white metal and is found in nature only in its oxidized form. It possesses unusual metallurgical properties and as a metal absorbs neutrons, which is sometimes used to shield neutron radiography. It is too reactive to...
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NASA Pioneer 10 Mission Data Section
This has been one of our longest-awaited, and most-anticipated items, but we always make sure the provenance checks out—no matter how long it takes. Unlock a piece of interstellar history with a genuine section of mission data tape from NASA's...
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Ankylosaurus Dermal Armor - Scute Fragment
Covered in rows of bony plates and wielding a powerful clubbed tail, the Ankylosaurs are one of the most distinctive and successful of all dinosaur families. Spread across more than 90 million years of the fossil record, various species of...
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Dinosaur Dung (Coprolite) - Classic Riker Box Specimen
This specimen is a fragment of agatized coprolite from the Morrison Formation in Utah. It is attributed to a 150,000,000 year old sauropod, a long necked herbivorous dinosaur. Both small and large sized specimens are available with more sizing information...
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Earliest Life - North Pole Dome Stromatolite
The oldest known fossil material are the North Pole Dome stromatolites of the Dresser Formation in Western Australia and date back to 3.4 billion years old. Each specimen is hand cut from a rough material and measures approximately 5mm across....
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Extraterrestrial Amino Acids - CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrites
A small piece of outer space is encased in this sample of Carbonaceous Chondrites. This sample includes amino acids found from the meteoric material that falls to Earth from outer space. Two special carbonaceous chondrites found in this sample are...
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Iron Element Round
Iron is the most common element on Earth and forms much of the Earth’s outer and inner core. It is also found in Earth’s crust but requires kilns or furnaces for extraction. It is used in the modern world as...
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Otodus Fossil Tooth - First Megatooth Shark
During the Paleocene Epoch, the Megatoothed sharks emerged as apex predators, dominating the seas for nearly 60,000,000 years. Otodus obliquus was the first of these giant ocean predators, with vertebrae over 5 inches in diameter, and an estimated body length...
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Apatosaurus Bone - Classic Riker Display Case Fragment
With a massive neck to reach the trees and a huge body to roam the land, the Apatosaurus was an incredible dinosaur. This creature lived 150,000,000 years ago during the Jurassic Period and has become one of the most iconic...
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Dinosaur Food - Cycad Fossil
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." [Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are]. -Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie Du Gout, ou, Méditations de Gastronomie Transcendante (1826) The palm-shaped fronds of the Cycad...
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Tin Element Round
Tin has a silvery color and is soft enough to be cut with little force. When combined with copper it can create bronze as well as create pewter when combined with different elements. Tin is used commonly for food packaging...
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Sulfur Element Round - Filled Container
Sulfur is a bright yellow element and is crystalline solid at room temperature. Sulfur is prevalent in Earth and usually occurs as sulfide and sulfate minerals. It is also referred to as brimstone and its greatest commercial use is in...
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Punched Computer Tape Section
OWN A PIECE OF ONE OF THE OLDEST COMPUTER PROGRAMS EVER CREATED Perforated paper tape, also known as computer tape, was an early form of physical media used for storing digital data. It was first developed in 1725 and rose...
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Ammonite
Ammonites are an extinct group of cephalopods that entered the fossil record 400 million years ago. They survived several mass extinction events, including the Permian–Triassic "Great Dying" which wiped out 96% of all marine species. They finally succumbed during the...
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Pterosaur Tooth - Classic Riker Box Specimens
This specimen is an individual Pterosaur tooth. It comes from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco and is associated with Coloborhynchus, a Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous with an estimated wingspan of 5m (15ft). Pterosaur Tooth Sizing: Small - 1.5 cm and...
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Dinosaur Eggshell
This specimen is a fragment of Hypselosaurus eggshell from the Provence region of southern France. Recent studies suggest that the sauropod may have been a "small" titanosaur, measuring perhaps 12m (40ft) in length in adulthood. The specimen comes inside a...
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Lunar Dust Simulant Set
This box includes two samples of regolith engineered to be chemically and physically identical to the surface dust of the two primary regions of the Moon. Lunar Mare Regolith Simulant is based on the darker regions of the moon, most of...
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Space Blanket
The Mylar space blanket was developed by NASA to reduce heat loss for spacecraft as well as humans. The material is a thin sheet of plastic that’s been coated with an atomically thin metallic layer. The result is an extremely...
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