DISCOVERED IN THE RYAZAN DISTRICT, RUSSIA, 2000

Name: A Dronino Meteorite
Brand: DISCOVERED IN THE RYAZAN DISTRICT, RUSSIA, 2000
Price: 10000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 12,500

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USD 2,000 - USD 3,000

Closed: 25 Nov 2014

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A Dronino Meteorite

DISCOVERED IN THE RYAZAN DISTRICT, RUSSIA, 2000

Price Realised USD 12,500

Closed: 25 Nov 2014

Price Realised USD 12,500

Closed: 25 Nov 2014

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A Dronino Meteorite
Discovered in the Ryazan District, Russia, 2000
This is a naturally abstract sculptural specimen exhibiting the distinctive corrugated 2-mm-thick grooves and ridges produced by terrestrial weathering characteristic of this type of meteorite. On a custom stand.
6 x 5 x 1in. (15x 12.5 x 2.5 cm.)
9½in. (24cm.) high in stand
1.2kg.

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Dronino consists of iron-meteorite fragments first found in the Ryazan district of Russia in 2000. The region has been inhabited for about a millennium and there are no reports of a large meteorite impact, indicating the mass must have fallen more than a thousand years ago. The old inferred terrestrial age is consistent with the high degree of weathering evident in typical specimens. Although 89% of iron meteorites are members of distinct chemical groups and hail from about a dozen different asteroids, the other 11% of recovered iron meteorites are chemically unrelated to other specimens and come from separate, otherwise unsampled, asteroids. They are known as “ungrouped” irons. Dronino is one of these unusual, ungrouped irons.