ID 491220
Lot 10 | THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EXTRATERRESTRIAL SUBSTANCE KNOWN — END PIECE OF THE FUKANG METEORITE
Valeur estimée
$ 3 500 – 4 500
The term pallasite is in honor of the German scientist, Peter Pallas, who while traveling through Siberia, examined the first pallasitic mass in the early 1770s. This is an honor Pallas is fortunate to have received, for he believed the unusual specimen he examined could not possibly have come from outer space — but to be fair, he lived at a time when most scientists did not believe rocks could fall out of the sky (see lot 19).
In a presentation that enhances Fukang’s allure, this specimen is cut and polished to a mirror finish on three faces. The meteorite’s exterior surface is seen on the reverse in this select end wedge of the most beautiful extraterrestrial substance known. Modern cutting and polishing.
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.
50 x 53 x 43mm (2 x 2 x 1.66 in.) and 150.0g (0.33 lbs)
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