DESERT GLASS FORM AN ASTEROID IMPACT — THE LARGEST SPECIMEN KNOWN TO EXIST
23.02.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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Startpreis
100000USD $ 100 000
| Auctioneer | CHRISTIE'S |
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ID 716451
Los 66 | DESERT GLASS FORM AN ASTEROID IMPACT — THE LARGEST SPECIMEN KNOWN TO EXIST
Schätzwert
$ 150 000 – 250 000
Hued in a variegated smoky yellow, and surprisingly translucent for a specimen this size and depth (see second image), this is a natural glass specimen, the result of sand in the Sahara Desert having melted due to a massive asteroid impact on Earth.
The surface of this aesthetic form is highly textured; select areas appear to evoke a frothing of molten glass. Worthy of any museum collection, now offered is an artifact of a cataclysmic event frozen in glass: the largest piece of Libyan Desert Glass known.
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.
425 x 360 x 235mm (16.75 x 14.25 x 9.25 in.) and 26.445 kg (58.25 lbs)
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