HIGH POSSIL meteorite 1st Scotland fall - 1804 - 350g TKW VERY RARE! IMCA 1633

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Up for auction is a very rare and historic High Possil meteorite fragment that comes from the High Possil meteorite fall in April 5, 1804, Scotland. What makes this meteorite fall very rare and historic is that it's the first Scotland meteorite fall. In addition to being the first meteorite fall in Scotland, the initial mass of the meteorite was estimated to be around 4.5kg from eye witnesses' accounts on that cloudy day. However, a day later majority of the mass was lost in a quarry and only 350grams is accounted for, which 320grams has been suggested to be in collection around the world, making this locality very rare to obtain. Down below are accounts from the fall and other information to go along with this rare find. A meteorite is a meteorite, but a meteorite with history and a legacy, will always add aura to your meteorite collection and value. I'm a member of the International Meteorite Collectors Association, member number 1633, so !HIGH POSSIL EVENTS AND HISTORYThe High Possil meteorite fell on the morning of Thursday, 5th April 1804, in a quarry near High Possil, on the northern outskirts of Glasgow. The High Possil meteorite is one of only four ever to have been found in Scotland - the others being the Perth meteorite of 1830, and the Strathmore meteorite, which fell in Perthshire in 1917. In 1998 fragments of a stony meteorite were reported from a field near Glenrothes in Fife, but this is an older fall, as they are very weathered. The High Possil meteorite was one of a number of falls around the beginning of the 19th Century, which were witnessed, recovered and investigated thoroughly. The 1795 Wold Cottage fall in Yorkshire, 1803 L'Aigle fall in France, and the 1804 High Possil fall could perhaps be said to mark the beginning of modern meteorite science. Although meteorite falls are rare everywhere, Scotland seems to have "escaped" unexpectedy lightly from such bombardment - over 18 falls are known from England and Wales. This effect may be more apparent than real, as much of Scotland is only sparsely populated, and the results of any unseen falls would rapidly become untraceable in the extensive tracts of mountain, bog, loch and forest. High Possil is a stony meteorite, classified as an L6 ordinary chondrite - a very common type. The Hunterian Specimen, GLAHM M172, now weighs about 151g, and is the largest surviving piece of the meteorite. Although extra-terrestrial in origin, the High Possil meteorite is mostly made up of minerals which also occur on earth. The major constituents are similar to those of a basalt: orthopyroxene, olivine, plagioclase feldspar and diopside. About 9% of the meteorite consists of nickel-iron alloys, with traces of other minerals such as troilite, whitlockite, chromite and copper. For microscope images of the meteorite Read all about it! Meteorite falls on Glasgow shock horror! What happened next? The subsequent history of the meteorite. A list of meteorites in the Hunterian Museum I want to know more... Further reading... Download the exhibition "Notes for Visitors" in pdf format.From: The Herald and Advertiser, Monday April 30th, 1804."Three men at work in a field at Possil, about three miles north from Glasgow, in the forenoon of Thursday the 5th curt. were alarmed with a singular noise, which continued, they say, for about two minutes, seeming to proceed from the south-east to the north-west. At first, it appeared to resemble four reports from the firing of cannon, afterwards, the sound of a bell, or rather of a gong, with a violently whizzing noise; and lastly they heard a sound, as if some hard body struck, with very great force the surface of the earth.""On the same day, in the forenoon, six men were at work in the Possil quarry, thirty feet below the surface of the ground, and there too an uncommon noise was heard, which, it is said, seemed at first to proceed from the firing of some cannon; but afterwards, the sound of hard substances hurling downwards over stones, and continuing in whole, for the... read more

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