"Above the Arctic Circle. Birch forest, swamp, snow. The Muonionalusta meteorite fell here a million years ago — and most of it is still in the ground."
Our Story
Where it
begins.
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Verifiable · 4.5 Billion Years Old
Chapter One
Atacama Desert, Chile.
November 2019.
We had been walking for days. 3,500 meters above sea level, dust in everything, no signal on the detector. Most expeditions go like this — long stretches of nothing, broken by a single moment.
That afternoon, Aleksandra picked up a hit. A small one. We dug, and a 138-gram Imilac fragment came out of the ground.
We fell to the ground. We hugged. We were covered in dust and we were laughing. And somewhere in those minutes, we both understood that this was no longer a hobby — that we wanted to spend our lives bringing pieces of space to the people who would love them as much as we did.
That night, lying in the desert under one of the clearest skies on Earth, we named the brand.
Stardust.
Emil Davidsson & Aleksandra Levchenkova
Barcelona
Chapter Two
The hunt.
Sweden, 67° North. Twelve years of return trips.
The fragments below are still the bulk of what we sell.
i.
ii.
"We sweep the same valleys season after season. Most days return nothing. The patience is the work."
Emil hunting a meteorite in Swedish Lapland
iii.
"Some fragments are 30 centimeters down. Others are two meters. Each one takes hours to extract."
iv.
"Three times heavier than rock. Older than Earth. The first time you hold one is the moment you understand why we do this."
v.
"Emil has been hunting here since 2013. Twelve years and counting."
Chapter Three
Beyond Sweden.
Some meteorites can only be found where they fell.
Sericho in Kenya. Aletai in the Gobi Desert. Imilac in the Atacama. Seymchan in the Russian Far East.
For those, we travel — to mineral shows around the world, and, more often, directly to the strewnfield regions where these stones land. We buy from the local finders, the families, the small dealers who pull them out of the desert and the steppe with their own hands.
Chapter Five
What we promise.
Every Stardust piece comes with a Certificate of Authenticity issued by us and backed up my IMCA (international meteorites collectors association member Number 4748) naming the meteorite, its origin, its weight, and its date of recovery.
If a stone we sold you is ever questioned, we re-certify it. For as long as the piece exists.
We don't run sales.
We don't manufacture in batches.
We don't use synthetics.
We don't outsource.
We hunt. We shape.
12
Years Hunting
6
Years Making
5,000+
Pieces Shipped
30+
Countries
The Founders
Emil &
Aleksandra.
We are the passionate team behind every Stardust piece. We hunt, we design, we pack.
If you ever want to talk about a piece, a meteorite, a custom commission, or anything else, feel free to write to us directly.
We answer every message. emil@meteoritejewelry.shop