ID 491233
Lot 23 | FROM THE FAMED CAR-METEORITE COLLISION, PARTIAL SLICE OF PEEKSKILL METEORITE
Valeur estimée
$ 4 500 – 5 500
Specimens of the Peekskill meteorite are difficult to obtain. A portion of the meteorite from which this slice was removed, along with the car it hit, have been on an international museum tour for years. Just prior to the impact, the car was purchased for $400. Shortly thereafter it sold for $10,000 and it is today worth in excess of an order-of-magnitude more. Peekskill’s signature heather-hued matrix is with mottled caramel accents and transected by an intricate webbing of shock melt — evidence of a violent impact on its parent asteroid. Metal flakes, further evidence of the same, are dispersed throughout. Softly triangular, there are two cut edges and one long curve of fusion crust on this sample of what is among the most famous meteorites in the world.
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.
62 x 61 x 2mm (2.5 x 2.5 x 0.1 in.) and 23.89g
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