An End-Piece from a Seymchan Meteorite
DISCOVERED IN RUSSIA, 1967; MODERN CUTTING
Price Realised USD 60,000
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USD 60,000 - USD 90,000
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An End-Piece from a Seymchan Meteorite
DISCOVERED IN RUSSIA, 1967; MODERN CUTTING
Price Realised USD 60,000
Price Realised USD 60,000
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Seymchan is an unusual and remarkable pallasite; large portions of the rock are olivine free. Pallasites formed at the core-mantle boundary of an asteroid that experienced melting: molten metal from the core mixed with olivine crystals settling downwards from the mantle. When the parent body was shattered by a major impact, a small portion of the olivine-free metal core remained attached to the olivine-rich core-mantle boundary layer. In some specimens, the Widmanstätten pattern is bent, a result of shearing of the pallasite mass as it exploded in the atmosphere
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DISCOVERED IN RUSSIA, 1967; MODERN CUTTING
An End-Piece from a Seymchan Meteorite
Estimate: USD 60,000 - 90,000
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