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Lot 925
Extremely Large Over Eight Pound Sikhote-Alin Iron-Nickle Meteorite. This Extremely Large 6.5 x 4.5 x 1.75 Inch 8.42 pound Silhote -Alin Iron Nickel meteorite is a very attractive and most interesting example of a shrapnel type Sikhote-Alin meteorit. It shows many features of the huge explosion that took place on Feb 10, 1947 high above the Sikhote-Alin mountains of Siberia. The enormous explosion tore the meteorite into thousands of smaller pieces and knocked people off their feet several miles away from the blast. There were at least two different explosions of the meteorite. The first explosion was much higher up in the atmospher and the meteorites from this initial explosion exhibit regmaglypts (thumbprints) from melting for a longer time in the earth's atmosphere. The second explosion occured much closer to the ground and these meteorites show the ripping force of the explosion resulting in sharp edges and there was not enough time to from the regmaglypts. This large 8.42 pound meteorite shows many signs of the explosive shearing forces as well as many flow lines where the metal was melting at the high temperatures in the atmosphere. These metal flow lines go in a number of different directions on the meteorite indicating that the meteorite was tumbling through the atmosphere when it hit the ground. The freshness of the Sihote-Alin meteorites make them the most popular of the iron-nickel meteorites with outstanding surface detail such as these flow lines that has rusted off the older iron-nickel meteorite falls. Also, the size of this meteorite is unusual in the most Sikhote-Alin meteorites found are much less than a pound in weight with the average specimen weighing only a couple of ounces.
Add $20.00 for domestic shipping.
Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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