Hi there!
Tomorrow the following meteorites are being offered at Heritage
Auction Galleries in Dallas. Should you have any questions or wish
to be an absentee bidder, contact me at 917-213 -8265 or call
Heritage directly at 214-528-3500
The catalog in which these meteorites appear is the most beautiful
natural history catalog I've seen in the 14-years of such
auctions...and the meteorites aren't too shabby either. ;-)
Enjoy.....
At the intersection of modern art & science, this core sample of an
exotic meteorite contains olivine and peridot. The meteorite from
which this specimen was cut was recovered from the Atacama Desert---
the highest desert on Earth--and possesses a British Museum of
Natural History provenance.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot13.html
The largest piece of the Moon ever offered at auction and it's also
the main mass of the most recently discovered lunar meteorite.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot10.html
Aesthetic meteorites are rare, and this natural sculpture from outer
space is one such example. Although it's an abstraction of Michigan
(see http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080604/
NEWS06/80604103/1008/NEWS ) , this 75-pound nickel-iron mass
originates from the asteroid belt between Mars & Jupiter and fell to
Earth in Argentina.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot02.html
At 3/4 tons, this is among the larger iron meteorites known to
exist. Also from the asteroid belt...via China.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot01.html
Extraterrestrial tenderizer: the largest portion of the only
meteorite to have resulted in a documented fatality. It was a
cow....in Venezuela. Steak dinners followed.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot20.html
One of the largest slices of the single most researched meteorite--
and it happens to contain the oldest matter mankind can touch; it's
the first material to have condensed from the gaseous nebula from
which our solar system formed and is, in fact, true stardust.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot19.html
This extraterrestrial crystal ball is from a meteorite which fell
above the Arctic Circle. As a result of grinding the meteorite into
a sphere, the internal crystalline structure of an iron meteorite is
now dramatized in three dimensions.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot08.html
PREVIEWS: Wednesday June 5th through Sunday June 7th / 10:00a –
6.00p
AUCTION: Sunday June 8th / 1.00p
Heritage Auction Galleries / 3500 Maple Avenue / Dallas, Texas
75219 / (214) 528-3500
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