One of the strangest findings, ever!
 
Micrometeorite [NMM 3854] was found on the very first stardust hunt in Sweden, and is one of the strangest ones I have ever seen! It is a cryptocrystalline (CC) type, which apparently was on its way to become a “turtleback”. But it ended up like something best described as an umbrella. Or parachute, I have never seen anything like it. 
In the front is small shiny nickel-iron bead, covered in beautiful pink oxidation, perhaps due to content of chromium? It has not yet been analyzed. Out from the metal bead are speed lines out to the flowery petals, before it unexpectedly and abruptly ends in a glass hemisphere in the back. A unique micrometeorite, one that will appear in books for decades to come. The jewel in the crown.
 
The stone was found September 21, 2022, at Strömstad Shoppingcenter, Strömstad, Sweden.