GIBEON METEORITE SPHERE — EXOTIC CRYSTAL BALL FROM OUTER SPACE
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ID 716396
Los 11 | GIBEON METEORITE SPHERE — EXOTIC CRYSTAL BALL FROM OUTER SPACE
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$ 4 000 – 6 000
As the crystalline structure seen does not appear in terrestrial iron ores, its presence is diagnostic for iron meteorites, and pattern variations are frequently indicative of different meteorites. This latticework, referred to as a Widmanstätten pattern, is a product of the intergrowth of two different iron-nickel minerals: kamacite (a low-nickel variety) and taenite (a high-nickel variety).
When shaped into a sphere, Gibeon meteorites reveal in three dimensions their prominent crystalline fingerprint in a perspective not available when viewing a flat surface (see lot 53). And this sphere is more unusual still: an uncommon engagement of a ring of plessite (a very fine-grained mixture of kamacite and taenite) arcs across this sphere resulting in what is a singular crystal ball from outer space. 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.
59mm (2.33 in.) in diameter and 811.9g (1.75 lbs)
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