[meteorite-list] Auction at Bonhams on April 30 in New York.

[Don Rawlings]

This may be just a wild guess, but maybe Bonhams has
the auction listed on their website since it is less
than a month away.

--- Timothy Heitz <midwest at meteorman.org> wrote:


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>  Hello List,

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>  Does anyone know if any other meteorites are being

> offered?

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>  Tim Heitz

>  Midwest Meteorite - http://www.meteorman.org/

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>  Go to Google News

>  Rare meteorite goes under hammer

>  10 hours ago

> 

>  A meteorite is expected to fetch £500,000 at

> auction in New York this 

> month.

> 

>  Weighing more than 925lbs, the object was

> discovered eight years ago in

>  China's Xinjiang Uygar province.

> 

>  Its rare olivine crystals endured atmospheric and

> impact forces as it

>  crashed down to Earth.

> 

>  Bonhams' Natural History Department director Thomas

> Lindgren said: "Less

>  than 1% of all meteorites are pallasites, the most

> alluring of all

>  meteorites due to their aesthetic appeal."

> 

>  Pallasites - meteorites composed of around 50%

> olivine and peridot crystals

>  and 50% nickel-iron - are thought to be relics of

> forming planets.

> 

> The Fukang meteorite will go under the hammer at

> Bonhams on April 30 in New

>  York.

> 

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Don Rawlings


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