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Lot Type Grading Description Est $A

NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 60 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 60 AGOUDAL (IMILCHIL) METEORITE, iron IIAB, found in 2000 in the Agoudal area, High Estimate A$380 Atlas Mountains, Morocco, 123g, about 6x4x3cm, in a display case. [Agoudal has an imapct crater about 3km in diameter, and appears to have been struck by another Reserve A$290 meteorite in the same place]

Lot 61 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 61 AGOUDAL METEORITE, IIAB iron, from the Atlas Mountains, Imichil Province, Morocco, Estimate A$50 2g, in 'Meteorites and More' display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. Reserve A$38

Lot 62 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 62 CAMPO DEL CIELO METEORITE, iron, from a crater field in northern Argentina, 307g, Estimate A$550 about 7x5x4cm. [The age of the Campo del Cielo (= Field of Heaven) is estimated at 4000-5000 years. It was first recorded by the Spaniards in 1576, but was already well Reserve A$420 known to the indigenous inhabitants. The craters and the area around contain numerous fragments of an enormous iron meteorite, with the total weight of the pieces so far recovered being about 100 tonnes. It is possibly the heaviest meteorite to be recovered]

Lot 63 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 63 CHELYABINSK METEORITE, LL5 chondrite, fell spectacularly as a bright fireball on Estimate A$2,400 February 15th 2013, over Russia and exploded over Chelyabinsk, destroying many windows, and injuring many people, piece 41g, about 6x3x2cm, in a display case. [Images Reserve A$1,800 of the fireball were captured by many video cameras and can be seen on Youtube. Caused by a 20m near-Earth asteroid with a speed of 19km per second, the light from the meteor was brighter than the sun, visible up to 100km away. It is the largest known natural object to have entered the Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event which destroyed a forested area of Siberia. The main mass fell into Chebarkul lake and broke the ice forming a 7m hole. The estimated mass of Chelyabinsk meteorite fragments recovered from the lake and collected from the strewn field on land is 1000kg]

Lot 64 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 64 CHELYABINSK METEORITE, LL5 chondrite, fell spectacularly as a bright fireball on Estimate A$200 February 15th 2013, over Russia and exploded over Chelyabinsk, destroying many windows, and injuring many people, piece 3g, about 1.5x1x1cm, in a display case. Reserve A$150 Page:2 www.abacusauctions.com.au 20 - 23 November 2020

Lot 65 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 65 CHELYABINSK METEORITE, Fireball of a Lifetime, from Chelyabinsk, Russia, 0.2g, in Estimate A$50 'Meteorites and More' display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. Reserve A$38

Lot 66 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 66 DALGETY DOWNS METEORITE, L4 chondrite, found in 1941 south of Dalgety Downs in Estimate A$800 Gascoyne, Western Australia, 448g, about 12x6x5cm, in a display case. [Dalgety Downs is the most massive meteorite classified as L4 chrondite. About 257kg has been Reserve A$600 recovered with large masses at American Museum of Natural History in New York (125kg) & WA School of Mines in Kalgoorlie (42kg)]

Lot 67 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 67 DALGETY DOWNS METEORITE, L4 chondrite, from Western Australia, 2.0g, in Estimate A$50 'Meteorites and More' display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. Reserve A$38

Lot 68 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 68 HAMILTON METEORITE, L6 Chondrite, discovered on Hamilton Station, near Estimate A$270 Dirranbandi, Queensland in 1966, stony veined olivine, slice, 145g, about 11x8cm. [The meteorite almost buried by mud in flood-plain of the Balonne River, total weight 68kg, Reserve A$210 main mass in University of New England in Armidale, NSW]

Lot 69 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 69 HAMILTON METEORITE, L6 chondrite, from Queensland, Australia, 2.0g, in 'Meteorites Estimate A$50 and More' display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. Reserve A$38

Lot 70 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 70 HENBURY METEORITE, IIAB iron, from Henbury Craters, Northern Territory, Australia, Estimate A$50 3.1g, in 'Meteorites and More' display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. [The craters were discovered by the manager of Henbury Station in 1899 Reserve A$38 125km south west of Alice Springs, with the first scientific investigations in 1931] Online Auction 3 Page:3

Lot 71 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 71 HUCKITTA METEORITE, pallasite, from Northern Territory, Australia, 1.7g, in 'Meteorites Estimate A$50 and More' display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. [Discovered in 1924 17km north of Alice Springs, the main mass was recovered in 1937 at Reserve A$38 Huckitta and is now in the South Australian Museum in Adelaide]

Lot 72 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 72 IMILAC METEORITE, Pallasite (Stony-Iron), from Chile, 0.4g, in 'Meteorites and More' Estimate A$50 display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. [Imilac meteorite was found in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile in 1822] Reserve A$38

Lot 73 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 73 LUNAR METEORITE, NWA 11273, Lunar (Feldspathic Breccia), found in April 2017 near Estimate A$5,500 Tindouf, Algeria, and obtained by a consortium of meteorite dealers, 58g, about 5x3x2cm. [A type specimen was sent for analysis to confirm that it originated from the Moon. It was Reserve A$4,200 officially accepted as a Lunar Feldspathic Breccia Meteorite in October 1917. A total of 2808 grams of the meteorite were excavated from the location]

Lot 74 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 74 LUNAR METEORITE, NWA 11273, Lunar (Feldspathic Breccia), found in April 2017 near Estimate A$64,000 Tindouf, Algeria, and acquired by a consortium of meteorite dealers, 641g, about 16x8x7cm. This piece represents about 22% of the original find of some 2808g, and is Reserve A$48,000 believed to be the largest chunk of the Moon in Australia. [A type specimen was sent for analysis to confirm that it originated from the Moon. It was officially accepted as a Lunar Feldspathic Breccia Meteorite in October 2017]

Lot 75 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 75 MOROCCAN METEORITE, L4 chondrite, from Moroccan Sahara, 214g, about 7x5x5cm. Estimate A$400 Reserve A$300 Page:4 www.abacusauctions.com.au 20 - 23 November 2020

Lot 76 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 76 MUNDRABILLA METEORITE, iron meteorite found in 1911 on the Nullabor Plain in Estimate A$2,000 Western Australia, 417 grams, about 8x5cm. [One of the largest meteorites ever found with a total known weight of 22 tonnes, and a main mass (the single largest fragment) Reserve A$1,500 accounting for 12.4 tonnes in the WA museum]

Lot 77 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 77 MUNDRABILLA METEORITE, iron meteorite found in 1911 on the Nullabor Plain in Estimate A$625 Western Australia, 128 grams, about 5x3cm. [One of the largest meteorites ever found with a total known weight of 22 tonnes, and a main mass (the single largest fragment) Reserve A$480 accounting for 12.4 tonnes in the WA museum]

Lot 78 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 78 MURCHISON METEORITE 2019 Wesley First Day Covers commemorating the 50th Estimate A$60 anniversary of the meteorite shower around the Victorian town of Murchison, FDCs for the $1 stamp and the sheetlet of 10 (2 of each) with the special First Day of Issue postmark. Reserve A$46 (4 items)

Lot 79 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 79 NANTAN METEORITE, nickel-iron IAB-MG, coarse octahedrite, found in a strewn field Estimate A$95 near the city of Nantan, China in 1958, 95g, about 6x4x1.5cm. [The fall of the meteorite may have been observed in 1516. Fragments were gathered for smelting in the 1950s, Reserve A$75 and about 9500kg have been retrieved, the largest having a mass of 2000kg in the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo]

Lot 80 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 80 NORTH WEST AFRICA METEORITE, H4 chondrite, found in north west Africa, 80g, with Estimate A$60 two polished sides, about 8x3x2cm, in display case. Reserve A$46 Online Auction 3 Page:5

Lot 81 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 81 NORTH WEST AFRICA METEORITE, H4 chondrite, found in north west Africa, rough Estimate A$350 rock with one polished side, 447g, about 9x8x5cm. Reserve A$270

Lot 82 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 82 NORTH WEST AFRICA (NWA) 1930 METEORITE, LL3 Chondrite, from the Sahara Estimate A$50 Desert, North West Africa, found in 2003, 0.4g, in 'Meteorites and More' display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. Reserve A$38

Lot 83 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 83 SAHARA DESERT METEORITE, Carbonaceous Chondrite, from Sahara Desert, North Estimate A$50 West Africa, 0.6g, in 'Meteorites and More' display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. Reserve A$38

Lot 84 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 84 SERICHO METEORITE, pallasite, found in Sericho, Kenya in 2017, beautiful slice, 433g, Estimate A$3,000 about 25x18cm. [According to the 'Meteoritical Bulletin', two brothers searching for their camels came across several large dense stones. To date, a total of about 2800kg has Reserve A$2,300 been found]

Lot 85 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 85 SEYMCHAN METEORITE, pallasite (stony iron), from Magadan district, Russia, small Estimate A$225 piece, 12g, about 4x2x2cm in a display case. [Found in the dry bed of the river Hekandue near the settlement of Seymchan in June 1967. The main mass of 272 kg was found by Reserve A$170 geologist FA Mednikov and turned over to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. A second specimen of 51kg was found with a mine detector in October 1967, and a new expedition in 2004 recovered about 50kg of new material] Page:6 www.abacusauctions.com.au 20 - 23 November 2020

Lot 86 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 86 SEYMCHAN METEORITE, pallasite (stony iron), from Magadan district, Russia, large Estimate A$8,000 piece with polished face, 2.03kg, about 16x15x5cm. [Found in the dry bed of the river Hekandue near the settlement of Seymchan in June 1967. The main mass of 272 kg was Reserve A$6,250 found by geologist FA Mednikov and turned over to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. A second specimen of 51kg was found with a mine detector in October 1967, and a new expedition in 2004 recovered about 50kg of new material]

Lot 87 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 87 TEKTITE, large chunk of black layered tektite from Thailand, 1.84kg, about 17x12x11cm. Estimate A$1,800 [Tektites are gravel-sized bodies composed of black, green, brown or grey natural glass formed from terrestrial debris ejected during meteorite impacts] Reserve A$1,350

Lot 88 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 88 TEKTITES, Indochinite tektite 2.2g; and Rizalite tektite from the Philippines, 0.8g, both in Estimate A$80 'Meteorites and More' display boxes, with signed CoAs by meteorite hunter & TV host Reserve A$60 Steve Arnold. (2 items)

Lot 89 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 89 VACA MUERTA METEORITE FRAGMENTS, Mesosiderite, Stony-Iron, from Vaca Estimate A$50 Muerta, Chile, first found in 1861, 0.5g, in 'Meteorites and More' display box, with signed CoA by meteorite hunter & TV host Steve Arnold. Reserve A$38

Lot 90 NATURAL HISTORY - Meteorites Lot 90 WOLFE CREEK SHALE BALL, from the Wolfe Creek meteorite impact crater in Western Estimate A$1,100 Australia, 558g, about 9x8x6cm. [Wolfe Creek meteorite crater is the second most 'obvious' meteorite crater on Earth (after the famous Barringer Crater in Arizona), and Reserve A$850 averages 875m in diameter. It was brought to the attention of scientisis after being spotted in an aerial survey in 1947. It is estimated that the meteorite that formed it was about 15m in diameter and had a mass of 17,000 tonnes. Small numbers of iron meteorites have been found in the vicinity of the crater, as well as so-called shale balls, rounded objects made of iron oxide. Shale balls are created by the slow weathering of the exterior of a meteorite]