ID 491214
Los 4 | COLD BOKKEVELD — HISTORIC, SCIENTIFICALLY VALUABLE CM2 METEORITE
Schätzwert
$ 1 500 – 2 000
“The event occurred on the morning of Oct 12, 1838 [subsequently corrected]. There was a cloudless sky without wind, when, say the Hottentots Kievet and Rattray, both under oath before a magistrate, about 9 o’clock ‘We heard a strange noise in the air, resembling the loudest thunder we had ever heard; and on looking up we perceived a stream passing over our head, issuing a noise which petrified us with terror: a burst took place close to the wagon [with which they were getting wood], when something fell and a smoke arose from the grass. My master sent me to look what it was that had fallen when I found a stone quite warm, so much so that I could not hold it in my hands.’ We are so fortunate to possess a good specimen of the African meteorite, through the kindness of a friend in Boston. It corresponds with Sir M. Faraday’s description, and is very different in appearance from any meteorite which we have seen.”
American Journal of Science and Arts; Vol. 40, No. 1, Oct – Dec 1840, p. 199
The charcoal matrix of this specimen is pristine. A patch of fusion crust is seen on one face of this scientifically invaluable and historic meteorite.
Christie's would like to thank Dr. Alan E. Rubin at the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles for his assistance in preparing this catalogue.
15 x 19 x 12mm (0.5 x 0.75 x 0.5 in.) and 3.271g
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