ID 927047
Lot 56 | LIBYAN DESERT GLASS — WHEN AN ASTEROID STRIKES EARTH
Valeur estimée
$ 1 200 – 1 800
This variegated smoky yellow specimen has ribbons of different hues coursing through the mass. One end is tapered and exceedingly translucent. This is a naturally sandblasted glass form created by an asteroid having impacted the Sahara Desert; an artifact of a cataclysmic event frozen in glass.
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.
73 x 65 x 67mm (3 x 2.5 x 2.66 in.) and 279.7 grams (0.6 lbs)
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