11/7/2023 0 Comments Fragments shoesProceeds from the sale will go to the World Wildlife Fund towards negating the human impact on Earth’s environment. The shoes go under the Sotheby’s auction hammer on December 17. Only a single pair of these meteorite-styled New Balance Dibiasky 550s exists, which means buyers need a whole lot of luck and a wad of cash to buy them. However, there’s another huge catch here. A total of 34 meteorite fragments went into making the New Balance sneakers. The agency recently launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft last month to check if colliding a man-made object with an asteroid could be a successful defense strategy.Ĭircling back to the sneakers, the Seymchan meteorite fragments used to decorate them were cut using a high-pressure water jet within millimeter accuracy to blend seamlessly with the design. NASA is also preparing defense strategies to avert such cataclysmic impact events in the future. Interestingly, the 12-megaton Tunguska explosion event of 1908 that flattened a nearly 2,000 square kilometers area in the Eastern Siberian Taiga of Russia is also generally attributed to a meteor airburst. UPDATE 4/11: New photos of the Travis Scott x Fragment x Air. Check out the photos below via zsneakerheadz. The meteorite is said to have been discovered sitting on the river bed in Russia’s Magadan river. The shoe arrives this Fall 2021 and will come with extra Blue, White, and Pink laces. The AJ 1 High Travis Scott X Fragment is available now for above retail at eBay.ĭid you know we have a great community where we discuss reviews and various other nerdy topics? You can join WearTesters here.As for the pricey Netflix-commissioned New Balance sneakers, the fragments of pallasite meteorite it comes adorned with are 4.5 billion years old.
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