Mitterling Meteorite Offerings January, 2022 Selling Meteorite Specimens for over 33 Years! (574-453-7285) Best Calling Times 09:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. MDT. I'm near the phone during the week of an offering. I will be at Tucson Gem Show February 1st to 13th in order to meet up with people.
Greetings, I take Visa/Mastercard & a few other types of cards. (let me know what you have. Checks, cashier checks, cash and money orders I will consider reasonable offers on any specimens, except those marked firm. Sincerely --AL Mitterling - Mitterling Meteorites - Email: mittmet51atgmail.com Photos can be found at this link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/183781924@N06/albums/72177720296265263/with/51846997684/ Note: put mouse over specimens to see names on color online catalog. Click to enlarge. Meteorites For Sale Allegan, Mi Fell July 10, 1899 8am. 31.75kg Ordinary high-iron (olivine-bronzite) chondrite [H5, S1, W0] After detonations, a single stone fell. Total iron (28.5 wt%) and olivine composition (~Fa18) are consistent with those of ordinary H chondrites. Most of the mass has been held at the U.S. National Museum. .67 gram Price: $95 Esquel, Argentina Class: Pal Found: 1951 Class: Pallasite A single mass of 1500 Kg was found and later purchased by Robert Haag. 132.5 grams Part Slice $XXXX - Sold New Orleans, LA New Orleans, Louisiana USA Fell 2003 September 23rd at about 16:05 hrs (CST)Ordinary chondrite (H5) On the afternoon of September 23rd 2003, a meteorite crashed through the two-story home of Ray and Judy Fausset, who were not at home at the time. Neighbors said that they heard a "terrific noise." Two observations of a fireball were recorded. The main mass of the meteorite was found in the crawl space under the house. Powdery meteorite debris and fragments were found along the penetration path throughout the house. A total mass of 19.256 kg was recovered from the Fausset house, the three largest fragments weighing 2966 g, 1292 g and 1001 g. Some additional material (~100 g) was also recovered in the surrounding neighborhood. The meteorite has a light grey matrix with a black fusion crust, and very friable. Abundant metal and troilite are visible on broken surfaces, as well as some thin (mm-thick) impact melt veins. Weight 10.4 gm Price $1,800.00 OBRO Portales Valley, NM This is a slice with metal veins! Portales Fell June 13th, 1998 at 7:45 a.m. Class: H6 and one of the most unique falls of recent times. After detonations were heard and smoky trails seen in the sky, a shower of meteorites landed near Portales, New Mexico. 53 objects have been recovered, with a total mass of 71.4 kg. The largest pieces weighed 16.5 kg. Speculation that some of the meteorites were hot from the fall or heated by the hot Sun still exist today. Possible orientation of the fall might account for possible heat generation of specimens. Specimen weight 48 gm Price: $XXXX - Sold Johnstown, CO. Slice Class: Diogenite 1/4 slice 9.2 grams with about an inch long of black fusion crust on natural outside surface. This fall interrupted a funeral that was taking place and part of the fall landed on the outside of the church. Price: $XXXX OBRO - Sold Juvinas, France Fell: June 15th, 1821 - This is a monomict breccia of the eucrite group. Eucrites falls and finds are the fairly common. Eucrites are believed to be, and most likely are from the surface of Asteroid Vesta. Vesta was the fourth asteroid ever discovered in the year 1807. Crusted on 100% of edges. 6.7 gm $970.00 no crust Jilin, China Class: H5 Fall Details: At about 1500 hr on 8 March 1976 a red fireball moving SW was sighted by townspeople of Hsinglung. During the flight there were several explosions and in the last stages of flight three distinct fireballs were observed. The meteorite fragments were scattered along an E-W trending strewnfield with the largest mass recovered at 44°03'N., 126°10'E. (MetBul) 16.8 grams Price $500.00 Holbrook, Az Class: L6 Holbrook is a famous meteorite fall, Holbrook fell in on the 19 July 1912. The fall was heard by many people with multiple explosions. A loud blast, followed by smaller explosions which lasted roughly a couple of minutes, in the early evening. Many stones fell in a large strewnfield along the Santa Fe railway line, extending for at least 6 miles to the eastern part of the town of Holbrook. Many of the fragments were recovered around the Aztec railway yard. More than 14,000 fragments from this fall have been recovered and fragments are often recovered to this day. 200 grams Price: $XXXX (has museum number) Sold D'Orbigny Buenos Aires Prov. Part Slice (1 1/8 X 3/4 X 1/8 inches) Shows an interesting green/gray matrix of this rare angrite. A 16.55 kg stone, mostly covered with dark gray fusion crust, was found in a corn field after a farmer hit it with a plow. Shows unique formation characteristics. Weight 3.84 gm $1,000.00 or best reasonable offer Carbonaceous Chondrite Moss, Norway Class: CO3.6 - At about 10:20 am on July 14, 2006, a bright fireball traveling SSE-NNW was witnessed by many people and a loud explosion and a rumbling sound was heard in the air above Moss and Rygge in south Norway, on the east side of the Oslofjord. Shortly after, a small meteorite was heard to land on an aluminum sheet and was recovered. Extensive searches in the area have resulted in the recovery of a total of 5 stones. Note that light rainfall occurred a few days after the fall. Only 3.76 kg total weight. Specimen Weight: 1.18 gm Price: $600.00 Canyon Diablo, Az (Meteor Crater) Iron Sculpted individual with a lot of character. Class IAB-MG. Many specimens from the Canyon Diablo region have been found over the years. A giant meteorite crater marks the spot of a catastrophic collision with the Earth many thousands of year ago where fragments landed around the crater, some many miles away. A great search by the Barrington Family for the main mass that was thought to exist below the crater was conducted. No great mass was every found. Later on Harvey Nininger was able to take measurements of the soil where little spheroids were found and came up with the mass of the meteoroid that created the awesome feature named meteor crater. 757.7 grams Price: $995.00 Sikhote Alin whole with thumbprints. Super nice piece with 100% crust and great features you just aren't seeing these days. Purchased years ago during the time when every dealer had nice specimens. Class: IIAB 381.2 grams Price $XXXX - Sold 335.6 grams Price $1,000.00 - Hold I have a bag of smaller specimens, mostly whole 377 grams $1,500.00 Cape York Meteorite was found in the summer of 1963. Class: IRON IIIAB, medium octahedrite. Weight is Estimated 15 tons. Meteorite has not been fully excavated. Discovery: The meteorite was discovered by Dr. Vagn Buchwald (Copenhagen, Denmark), during a study of the lociation where the Greenland meteorites were previously discovered. It was 6 km to the west of the point where the two known specimens «Woman» and «Dog» were found and is undoubtedly a part of the Cape York meteorite shower. The meteorite lay on an ice-free slope 500 m from the shore and was partly covered with gneiss boulders. There was no crater and no crushing of rocks discovered. The meteorite has temporarily been left where discovered. The specimen found is the sixth from the Cape York meteorite shower. Dr. Vagn Buchwald has drawn up a summary of precise data on all the known specimens as of September 1963. (from the meteoritical Bulletin) Weight: 245.8 gm XXXX0 (other smaller slices available) - Sold Plus 52.7 gm 13.7, 13.6 gums Sold Odessa Slice Full Slice with nice inclusions. Class: IAB The Odessa meteorites were for a long time one of the main meteorites that people could collect in earlier times. Similar to the Canyon Diablo meteorites and class. Both are from impact sites that left a meteorite crater. First described in 1922 and recognized as a meteorite fall site. Multiple craters were found at the fall site. My slice shows nice inclusions and a great etch. A full perfect slice. Full slice Weight: 323.1 gm Price:$XXXX - Sold Udei Station, Nigeria Fell: Spring of 1927 Silicated Iron Meteorite Class: IAB ungrouped. This is a sensational silicated iron meteorite with a brown matrix and rich in metal, a medium octahedrite with silicated features in the matrix. The fall was heard by the local people but exact date was not established. Weight: 223.8 gm Price: $XXXX- Sold Milton, Mo (rare Pallasite) Milton, Missouri Class: Pallasite ungrouped, Found 2000. Again not much of this material in collectors hands. A rare third type of pallasite. This was the result of a trade of other material. A single mass of 2040 g was found in a bean field by Ben Rogers and Gary Wennihan. Initial identification was made by C. Rohs and J. Reese at Northwest Missouri State University. Small vial of dust from cutting. Vial in glass display inside riker mount Price: $200 Seymchan, Russia Found: Part slice 106.5 gm 12.375 square inches (2.75 X 4.5 X 1/8 inch) Nice piece with lots of yellow crystals through out the specimen and a silver band running on one fourth of the side (see picture to appreciate it). Price: $1,000.00 COLLECTIONS! I have two collections that I want to sell as a whole group. If Items don't sell near the end of the Tucson Gem Show, I will consider offers on individual pieces in these collections. Australian Collection Contact me for a list of specimens. Texas Collection Contact me for a list of specimens.
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