ID 491217
Lot 7 | SINGULAR COMPLETE INDIVIDUAL FROM SIKHOTE-ALIN EVENT
Valeur estimée
$ 1 400 – 2 000
Covered with regmaglypts, the convex face features tell-tale rivulets and ablation lipping where molten material streamed off this meteorite during its fiery descent earthward. Cleavage along angular crystalline planes is evident on the reverse where animated contours dramatically jag every which way — the result of ripping apart in the mesosphere and then being smoothed and rounded in the course of frictional heating. From one of the more frightening natural events of modern times, the monumental forces exerted on this meteorite as it punched through Earth’s atmosphere are manifest.
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 57 x 39mm (3 x 2.25 x 1.5 in.) and 304.5g (0.66 lbs)
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