MASLYANINO METEORITE SLICE

Lot 20
06.04.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 20 | MASLYANINO METEORITE SLICE
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£ 1 500 – 2 500
Polished to mirror finish one side and etched to other. The 26-kilogram mass of Maslyanino, from which this was cut, was found in a wheat field in May 1992. Unlike most iron meteorites (which crystallized in the cores of differentiated asteroids), the IAB group probably formed by a tremendously energetic collision at the surface of a chondritic asteroid. This impact triggered local separation of silicate and metal, and slow cooling of buried molten metal beneath the floor of a crater.

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.
200 mm x 115 mm x 2 mm
278g.
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