[meteorite-list] AD4: October Meteorite Offerings
Mitterling Meteorite Offerings October 2019 (Oct. 11th to Oct. 18th) Selling Meteorite Specimens for over 31 Years! (574-453-7285) Best Calling Times 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST. I'm near the phone during the week of an offering. Greetings, I take Visa/Mastercard & a few other types of cards, checks & money orders. I will consider reasonable offers on any of the specimens, except those marked firm. Sincerely --AL Mitterling Mitterling Meteorites https://www.flickr.com/photos/183781924@N06/albums/72157711199010018 (For Photos of Specimens) Items for sale Ghubara, Oman - Class: L5 Whole Specimen 649.7 gm (unusual to see a whole specimen) Found on the surface of the desert. Stones are fresh internally and this fall had a fresh fusion crust. The fall was not collected and left to weather. Wind and sand have blasted the crust off on exposed surfaces, except where they were buried in the ground. Price: $650.00 Ghubara Chunk, This comes from a larger specimen I had at one time. I took slices off it and sold most slices. This piece has a nice inclusion in it. It has a dimple from cutting but don't want to loose the nice inclusion so I have not lapped it out. Nice outside weathered/tektured crust on this piece. Has not experienced any major oxidation as some pieces have. Weight: 815 grams Price $995.00 Allende, Mexico (CV3) Large Slice with 6.5 inches crust 101.6 grams 10.31 square inches (2 3/4 X 3 3/4 X 1/4 inch) with nice chodrules and CAI's (one large one) Slice has been studied and a rectangular dark spot (about a square inch in area) where probe work was done. Came from the King Collection of Meteorites. $1,500.00 Allende Whole 67.8 gm. (1 7/8 X 1.5 X 1.3 inches) 60 - 65 % crusted $700.00 Theil Mtns Pallasite from Antarctica. I am offering a 5.1 gram part slice in a nice raker display. Very hard to find this material. This is the last sizable piece of this material I have. Price $2,100.00 I also have some smaller part slice specimens of Theil Mtns. 1.46 gm, .9 gm, .49 gm, & .25 gm @ $450/gram Campo de Ceilo This is an uncleaned specimen with natural patina. Shows nice thumb printing and is a reasonable size specimen. ( 4.5 X3.5 X 2 ) inches Weight 2411 gm (5.3 lbs) Price: $1,500.00 Odessa Whole This is a nice whole specimen I have had for some time. Has some nice character on the outside. 1682 gms $1800 OBRO Toluca, Mexico Iron 17lbs$4,500 OBRO (7718 grams) This is a nice whole specimen and has been in my personal collection for 30 years. Georgetown, Australia (iron) Found in 1988 RARE IIICD iron, now regrouped as IAB-ung. This meteorite was analyzed by Choi et al. (1995) and subsequently listed in the Catalog of Meteorites as an anomalous IIICD iron with silicate inclusions (it has fantastic troilite). It was later analyzedby Wasson who classified it as a “solo iron related to IAB.” The name “Georgetown (iron)” is now recognized as official by the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee. J. T. Wasson ) reports that Georgetown (iron) was found an unknown distance from Georgetown, Queensland, Australia, by a gold prospector with a metal detector. Weight 26.2 gm $1,500 Gujba Yobe, Nigeria Fell 1984 April 3, 18:30 local time Class: Bencubbin-like meteorite. A conical meteorite fell in a corn field near the village of Bogga Dingare after a bright fireball was witnessed moving west to east and an explosion was heard. The local people hammered the meteorite into many pieces, and most of the material was dispersed. The original mass is unknown, although secondhand reports indicate that it had a volume of ~20 000 cm3 and thus a mass of - 100 kg. Material that almost certainly came from this fall has been sold in the last few years elsewhere in Nigeria, with claims that the specimens were new finds. Weight: 68.9 grams Price $3,800 D'Orbigny Buenos Aires Prov. Part Slice (1 1/8 X 3/4 X 1/8 inches) Shows interesting green/gray matrix of this rare angrite. Weight 3.84 gm $1000.00 or best reasonable offer. NWA 801 CR-2 - 8.9 gram with cut face two sides with outside oxidized crust. Nice chondrules Price: $200.00 Seymchan, Russia 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). $1,550.00 Seymchan, Russia part slice 40.0 grams, over 4 square inches (2.75 X 1.5 X 1/8 inches) Nice specimen that resembles a fish or maybe a space shuttle. $600.00 Millbillillie, Australia Whole Stone 360 grams 100% fusion crust showing half black/half orange clay crust. $3,500 firm. (this is a super nice specimen showing flow line features!) Thuathe, Lesotho (H4/5) Fell: July 21, 2002. I have about 7 slices of this material from 7 gm to 11 plus grams. An interesting fall seen traveling east to west over Lesotho before the bolide exploded. Dust trails were seen from the fall and a very loud explosions from the fall were heard. A 7.4 km X 1.9
[meteorite-list] AD4: October Meteorite Offerings
Mitterling Meteorite Offerings October 2019 (Oct. 11th to Oct. 18th) Selling Meteorite Specimens for over 31 Years! (574-453-7285) Best Calling Times 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST. I'm near the phone during the week of an offering. Greetings, I take Visa/Mastercard & a few other types of cards, checks & money orders. I will consider reasonable offers on any of the specimens, except those marked firm. Sincerely --AL Mitterling Mitterling Meteorites https://www.flickr.com/photos/183781924@N06/albums/72157711199010018 (For Photos of Specimens) Items for sale Ghubara, Oman - Class: L5 Whole Specimen 649.7 gm (unusual to see a whole specimen) Found on the surface of the desert. Stones are fresh internally and this fall had a fresh fusion crust. The fall was not collected and left to weather. Wind and sand have blasted the crust off on exposed surfaces, except where they were buried in the ground. Price: $650.00 Ghubara Chunk, This comes from a larger specimen I had at one time. I took slices off itand sold most slices. This piece has a nice inclusion in it. It has a dimple from cutting but don't want to loose the nice inclusion so I have not lapped it out. Nice outside weathered/tektured crust on this piece. Has not experienced any major oxidation as some pieces have. Weight: 815 grams Price $995.00 Allende, Mexico (CV3) Large Slice with 6.5 inches crust 101.6 grams 10.31 square inches (2 3/4 X 3 3/4 X 1/4 inch) with nice chodrules and CAI's (one large one) Slice has been studied and a rectangular dark spot (about a square inch in area) where probe work was done. Came from the King Collection of Meteorites. $1,500.00 Allende Whole 67.8 gm. (1 7/8 X 1.5 X 1.3 inches) 60 - 65 % crusted $700.00 Theil Mtns Pallasite from Antarctica. I am offering a 5.1 gram part slice in a nice raker display. Very hard to find this material. This is the last sizable piece of this material I have. Price $2,100.00 I also have some smaller part slice specimens of Theil Mtns. 1.46 gm, .9 gm, .49 gm, & .25 gm @ $450/gram Campo de Ceilo This is an uncleaned specimen with natural patina. Shows nice thumb printing and is a reasonable size specimen. ( 4.5 X3.5 X 2 ) inches Weight 2411 gm (5.3 lbs) Price: $1,500.00 Odessa Whole This is a nice whole specimen I have had for some time. Has some nice character on the outside. 1682 gms $1800 OBRO Toluca, Mexico Iron 17lbs $4,500 OBRO (7718 grams) This is a nice whole specimen and has been in my personal collection for 30 years. Georgetown, Australia (iron) Found in 1988 RARE IIICD iron, now regrouped as IAB-ung. This meteorite was analyzed by Choi et al. (1995) and subsequently listed in the Catalog of Meteorites as an anomalous IIICD iron with silicate inclusions (it has fantastic troilite). It was later analyzedby Wasson who classified it as a solo iron related to IAB. The name Georgetown (iron) is now recognized as official by the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee. J. T. Wasson ) reports that Georgetown (iron) was found an unknown distance from Georgetown, Queensland, Australia, by a gold prospector with a metal detector. Weight 26.2 gm $1,500 Gujba Yobe, Nigeria Fell 1984 April 3, 18:30 local time Class: Bencubbin-like meteorite. A conical meteorite fell in a corn field near the village of Bogga Dingare after a bright fireball was witnessed moving west to east and an explosion was heard. The local people hammered the meteorite into many pieces, and most of the material was dispersed. The original mass is unknown, although secondhand reports indicate that it had a volume of ~20 000 cm3 and thus a mass of - 100 kg. Material that almost certainly came from this fall has been sold in the last few years elsewhere in Nigeria, with claims that the specimens were new finds. Weight: 68.9 grams Price $3,800 D'Orbigny Buenos Aires Prov. Part Slice (1 1/8 X 3/4 X 1/8 inches) Shows interesting green/gray matrix of this rare angrite. Weight 3.84 gm $1000.00 or best reasonable offer. NWA 801 CR-2 - 8.9 gram with cut face two sides with outside oxidized crust. Nice chondrules. Price: $200.00 Seymchan, Russia 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). $1,550.00 Seymchan, Russia part slice 40.0 grams, over 4 square inches (2.75 X 1.5 X 1/8 inches) Nice specimen that resembles a fish or maybe a space shuttle. $600.00 Millbillillie, Australia Whole Stone 360 grams 100% fusion crust showing half black/half orange clay crust. $3,500 firm. (this is a super nice specimen showing flow line features!) Thuathe, Lesotho (H4/5) Fell: July 21, 2002. I have about 7 slices of this material from 7 gm to 11 plus grams. An interesting fall seen traveling east to west over Lesotho before the bolide exploded. Dust trails were seen from the fall and a very loud
