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Meteorite Auction - Macovich Collection HOME l INTRO TO MACOVICH l METEORITES FOR SALE l MEDIA INFO l CONTACT US THE MACOVICH METEORITE AUCTION Sunday February 9, 2003 10:30 A.M. at the InnSuites — Courtyard Terrace 475 North Granada, Tucson (520) 622-3000 Previews & In-person Registration February 1 – February 9 (10:30AM – 6 PM) February 9 (9:30AM – 10:30AM) Room 404 at the InnSuites Hotel AUCTION NOTES You must register to participate. Dimensions of lots are approximate. There is a 12.5% buyer's commission on all lots. Low and high estimates are merely a guideline. Witnessed falls are denoted by an asterisk. A bullet to the left of the lot number indicates that the specimen carries a reserve. Meteorites of a more decorative or sculptural nature are designated by a green box around the lot number. LOT NAME DATE OF WEIGHT & TKW LOCALITY DESCRIPTION ESTIMATE # TYPE FALL/FIND DIMENSIONS CLICK ON METEORITE NAME TO VIEW IMAGE AND DESCRIPTION Naiman* Naiman Cnty, Encrusted fragment of an extremely difficult to obtain meteorite; 12.55 g 1 May/26/1982 1.05 Kg $150 – $250 L6 Mongolia Purple Mountain Observatory provenance 27 x 28 x 14 Kilabo* Complete specimen of Earth's most recent meteorite recovery 83.20 g 2 July/21/2002 ~24 Kg Hadejia, Nigeria $600 – $750 LL6 to date; ~90% fusion crust 48 x 35 x 35 Highly brecciated thin quarter slice of this much sought–after Honolulu* 1.99 g 3 Sep/27/1825 ~3 Kg Oahu, Hawaii meteorite; with fusion crust; Finnish Geological Museum $250 – $350 L5 27 x 21 x 1 provenance Partial slice; the most famous meteorite/auto impact event on Peekskill* 12.57 Westchester 53.90 g $3,750 – • 4 Oct/09/1992 record; one edge crust featuring the Chevy's red paint; three H6 Kg Co., NY 55 x 54 x 7 $4,750 fragments from the shattered rear tail light included Triangular partial slice from one of Europe's most historic early Tabor* Bohemia, 1.85 g 5 Jul/3/1753 ~10 Kg meteorite showers; one edge of fusion crust; museum marking $250 – $450 H5 Czech Republic 17 x 16 x 2 evident on edge Felix* Choice rectangular partial slice of this low tkw CO3; 75% fusion crust 8.19 g $850 – 6 May/15/1900 ~3.2 Kg Perry Co., AL CO3.4 along rim; not readily available; Smithsonian Institution provenance 30 x 18 x 3 $1,150 D'Orbigny 16.55 Buenos Aires, Fragment with one cut and polished face; comprised primarily of 6.02 g $1,800 – 7 1979 Angrite Kg Argentina augite, olivine and anorthite, D'Orbigny is the most appealing angrite 25 x 19 x 11 $2,400 Small cut fragment from the most sought–after Martian meteorite Chassigny* Haute Marne, 0.07 g $700 – 8 Oct/3/1815 4 Kg available to the public; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris) SNC France 3 x 4 x 1 $1,000 provenance Stannern* Moravia, Czech From one Europe's most famous falls; a very fresh fragment with 11.28 g 9 May/22/1808 52 Kg $550 – $850 AEUC Republic fusion crust 34 x 15 x 14 Among the largest specimens from the Stannern meteorite shower; Stannern* Moravia, Czech 175.7 g $10,000 – 10 May/22/1808 52 Kg covered with fusion crust; accompanied by historic labels signed by AEUC Republic 55 x 43 x 40 $12,500 Neumann and Kurat; Natural History Museum Vienna provenance Dhofar 081 0.174 Beautifully prepared partial slice of the Moon; large anorthositic 0.23 g $700 – 11 1999 Sahara Desert LUNAR Kg inclusions with 30% fusion crust 23 x 11 x 1 $1,100 Cut fragment; polished on two sides; from one of the most famous — Willamette ~15,500 Clackamas Co., and most beautiful—meteorites in the world; exceptionally difficult to 9.93 g $1,200 – 12 1902 IIIA Kg OR obtain; a British Museum of Natural History label is affixed to the 24 x 9 x 8 $1,600 sloping edge Trapezoidal partial slice; Eagle Station is perhaps the most prized pallasite as a result of so little material being available and its Eagle Station Carroll County, 3.77 g $800 – 13 1880 36.3 Kg membership in an unusual sub–group comprised of just 650 additional PAL-ANOM Kentucky 20 x 20 x 3 $1,000 grams of two other tiny meteorites; Natural History Museum Vienna provenance Similar to the previous specimen; a chance to acquire a superb Eagle Station Carroll County, 12.36 g $2,000 – • 14 1880 36.3 Kg specimen of a distinguished meteorite; Vienna Natural History PAL-ANOM Kentucky 38 x 27 x 3 $2,700 Museum provenance Vigarano* Emilia-Romagna, Fresh partial slice; one edge fusion crust; the "V" in the CV type; The 7.15 g 15 Jan/22/1910 ~15 Kg $550 – $700 CV3 Italy Natural History Museum (London) provenance 40 x 22 x 3 Barbotan* Partial slice with slight crust; historic; The Natural History Museum 8.21 g $900 – • 16 Jul/24/1790 6.4 Kg Gers, France H5 (London) provenance 21 x 46 x 3 $1,300 A singularly uncharacteristic example of an iron meteorite — in fact, one of the most unusually–shaped iron meteorites known to exist; 6.88 kilos Gibeon ~90,000 Great Namaland, highly decorative and featuring a rich patina, this specimen was on [15 lbs] $17,500 – • 17 1836 IVA Kg Namibia loan to the American Museum of Natural History; a matchless, 9.5 x 9.5 x 3 $25,000 naturally occurring work of art from outer space; Macovich inches Collection provenance file:///H|/_Meteorites%20my%20-%20www/sale/AuctionBlood-2003.htm (1 z 8) [2008-08-12 14:57:45] Meteorite Auction - Macovich Collection Fractured end piece; three sides covered in fusion crust; recovered by Pasamonte* 18.18 g $1,500 – 18 Mar/24/1933 5.1 Kg Union Co., NM Nininger at the Pasamonte Ranch; a superb specimen of a famed and AEUC-P 39 x 18 x 19 $2,000 difficult to obtain American meteorite A large singular endpiece of the most well–known American pallasite; Brenham 4,300 Kiowa County, ~50 kilos $50,000 – 19 1882 easily the centerpiece of any collection, this important specimen has PAL Kg Kansas [110 lbs] $70,000 an American Museum of Natural History provenance Cherokee A noteworthy meteorite detected by the Prarie Photographic Network; Lost City* 11.36 g $1,000 – • 20 Jan/3/1970 17 Kg County, a singular partial slice with two long edges of fusion crust; H5 36 x 19 x 5 $1,500 Oklahoma Smithsonian Institution provenance Mighei* Nikolaev, Prototypal fragment; loaded with CAIs; the "M" in the CM2 class; 4.21 g 21 June/18/1889 ~8 Kg $400 – $550 CM2 Ukraine Academy of Sciences (Moscow) provenance 33 x 16 x 15 Cut partial slice; scientifically and aesthetically, Bencubbin is an Bencubbin Western impressive meteorite; its similarity with the Patwar meteorite resulted 10.78 g $700 – 22 1930 118 Kg CH-BEN Australia in a new classification, bencubbinites, to cover such anomalous 22 x 22 x 20 $1,000 enstatite–olivine stony–irons; a fine representation Barratta New South Thin complete partial slice; dark variegated matrix with 7/8 inch 248.90 g $1,200 – • 23 1845 200 Kg L3.8 Wales, Australia chondrule, armored chondrules scattered throughout 225 x 140 x 2 $1,700 Unusually large complete specimen of the most researched and Allende* ~3,000 Chihuahua, $9,000 – • 24 Feb/8/1969 scientifically investigated meteorite; 70% fusion crust; an extremely 4,500 g CV3 Kg Mexico $12,500 notable offering The result of an asteroidal impact melting and "splashing" the earth's 220 g 25 Tektite Thailand surface, this is a large, rather exotic looking tektite recovered in $75 – $150 85 x 9 x 8 Thailand Mauerkirchen* Ober-Österreich, Partial slice; historic and infrequently available; The Natural History 2.12 g 26 Nov/20/1768 ~19 Kg $250 – $350 L6 Austria Museum (London) provenance 28 x 13 x 2 Complete slice with three edges of fusion crust. Meteorites did not "exist" prior to Siena (within the scientific community), and so Siena Siena* 6.79 g $1,700 – • 27 Jun/16/1794 3.7 Kg Tuscany, Italy will forever be one of the most historic meteorites and one of the most LL5 30 x 28 x 3 $2,200 difficult to obtain — and it's also a gorgeous breccia; The Natural History Museum (London) provenance From one of Europe's most famous meteorite showers; three roundish Pultusk* 25.10 g 28 Jan/30/1868 ~300 Kg Warsaw, Poland complete individuals with an average of 90% crust; each specimen $200 – $300 H5 17 x 16 x 11 averages 8 grams and 15mm in diameter Pultusk* Similar to the previous lot; complete individual; Natural History 369 g $2,000 – 29 Jan/30/1868 ~300 Kg Warsaw, Poland H5 Museum Vienna provenance; catalog number E.590i 89 x 69 x 40 $2,600 Partial slice with one edge of crust and superior translucency; a very Imilac Atacama Desert, 54.8 g $800 – 30 1822 ~920 Kg fine example overall; The Natural History Museum (London) PAL Chile 54 x 67 x 3 $1,100 provenance Visually stunning triangular end piece from the Macovich Collection; four cut and polished faces with obverse covered in crust; from the Imilac Atacama Desert, main mass of Imilac (205 kg) which was, before recently being 1295 g $13,000 – • 31 1822 ~920 Kg PAL Chile sectioned, on display at the former British Museum of Natural History 175 x 89 x 57 $16,000 (now The Natural History Museum); with gleaming highly refractive crystals, a singularly magnificent specimen The crown jewel of this offering.
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    RESEARCH ARTICLES the area (2). One meteorite fell at Sutter’sMill (SM), the gold discovery site that initiated the California Gold Rush. Two months after the fall, Radar-Enabled Recovery of the Sutter’s SM find numbers were assigned to the 77 me- teorites listed in table S3 (3), with a total mass of 943 g. The biggest meteorite is 205 g. Mill Meteorite, a Carbonaceous This is a tiny fraction of the pre-atmospheric mass, based on the kinetic energy derived from Chondrite Regolith Breccia infrasound records. Eyewitnesses reported hearing aloudboomfollowedbyadeeprumble.Infra- Peter Jenniskens,1,2* Marc D. Fries,3 Qing-Zhu Yin,4 Michael Zolensky,5 Alexander N. Krot,6 sound signals (table S2A) at stations I57US and 2 2 7 8 8,9 Scott A. Sandford, Derek Sears, Robert Beauford, Denton S. Ebel, Jon M. Friedrich, I56US of the International Monitoring System 6 4 4 10 Kazuhide Nagashima, Josh Wimpenny, Akane Yamakawa, Kunihiko Nishiizumi, (4), located ~770 and ~1080 km from the source, 11 12 10 13 Yasunori Hamajima, Marc W. Caffee, Kees C. Welten, Matthias Laubenstein, are consistent with stratospherically ducted ar- 14,15 14 14,15 16 Andrew M. Davis, Steven B. Simon, Philipp R. Heck, Edward D. Young, rivals (5). The combined average periods of all 17 18 18 19 20 Issaku E. Kohl, Mark H. Thiemens, Morgan H. Nunn, Takashi Mikouchi, Kenji Hagiya, phase-aligned stacked waveforms at each station 21 22 22 22 23 Kazumasa Ohsumi, Thomas A. Cahill, Jonathan A. Lawton, David Barnes, Andrew Steele, of 7.6 s correspond to a mean source energy of 24 4 24 2 25 Pierre Rochette, Kenneth L.