This is a limited edition print of Aouinet Legraa (see lots 48 and 57) created by renowned photographer Neil Buckland. It was captured from a thin section of an Aouinet Legraa specimen 30 microns thick (a human hair is 90-150 microns). Buckland has pioneered a new micro-panoramic imaging system that combines hundreds of individual photographs to yield a seamless "microscape" of unprecedented detail. The ability to image larger areas provides researchers a far greater context in their studies of commingled mineral components. Widely published and exhibited in both galleries and museums, Buckland collaborates with Dr. Anthony Irving, among the world’s foremost meteorite classification experts.

Aouinet Legraa is an exceedingly fresh example of a rare unbrecciated eucrite. Taken in partially cross-polarized light (XPL0), the colored grains in this image are pyroxene, the whitish to pale gray lathe-like grains are plagioclase, and the small black (opaque) grains are primarily oxide minerals rich in iron, titanium and chromium.

A 12-color archival pigment on 100% cotton rag. Coated with a satin acrylic finish, the print is frameless, glassless and mounted on a birch wood panel. The panel is signed and numbered — limited edition 5 of 9 — on the reverse.

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.

40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6cm)