ID 716426
Los 41 | GIBEON IRON METEORITE — PARTIAL SLICE
Schätzwert
$ 400 – 600
The latticework seen in this partial slice is a choice example of a Gibeon meteorite’s fingerprint, a specimen delimited by three cut edges and a long arc of the meteorite’s natural external rim. Gibeon meteorites originated from the molten core of an asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter whose shattered remains are now part of the asteroid belt. A catastrophic impact with another asteroid resulted in the liberation of the core, sending what was to become the Gibeon mass into an Earth-crossing orbit where it wandered for millions of years before raining down in what is now the Kalahari Desert. Modern fashioning.
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.
59 x 109 x 4mm (2.33 x 4.25 x 0.1 in.) and 90.0 grams (0.2 lbs)
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