DISCOVERED LYON COUNTY, KANSAS, 1881

Name: An Admire Meteorite Nodule
Brand: DISCOVERED LYON COUNTY, KANSAS, 1881
Price: 3200.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 4,000

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Closed: 25 Nov 2014

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An Admire Meteorite Nodule

DISCOVERED LYON COUNTY, KANSAS, 1881

Price Realised USD 4,000

Closed: 25 Nov 2014

Price Realised USD 4,000

Closed: 25 Nov 2014

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An Admire Meteorite Nodule
Discovered Lyon County, Kansas, 1881
This specimen shows the green-to-brown clumps of olivine which are embedded in a metallic iron-nickel mass. The specimen’s torn shape is evocative of the violent history of its parent asteroid, which was torn apart 100 million years ago.
2¾ x 2¼ x 1½in. (7 x 6 x 4cm.)
211.2g.

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Admire is a pallasite formed at the core-mantle boundary of an asteroid that melted about 4.5 billion years ago. Deep inside the asteroid, molten metal from the top of the core mixed with olivine grains (a magnesium-rich silicate mineral) that had crystallized from the mantle and were pulled downwards, towards the core, by the body’s modest gravity. Things remained quiet for Admire until a major collision shattered the asteroid roughly 100 million years ago; this event and subsequent, less energetic collisions set some of the pallasites on a collision course with Earth. The first piece of Admire to be found was ploughed up in Lyon County, Kansas in 1881.