METEORITE-Very Rare -ALAMOGORDO -New Mexico, H5 Ex-Schwade Collection - 1.38g
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Here is a 1.38 gram, part slice of The ALAMOGORDO Meteorite. This H5 Chondrite was found in Otero County, New Mexico, USA in 1938. Total known weight is ~13.6 kilos. Very seldom available to collectors. This part slice was taken from a JIM SCHWADE Collection piece. A very well known and famous private meteorite collection. A copy of The JIM SCWADE METEORITE COLLECTION Label is included with this specimen. Provenance is important and this label copy fills that important need. Also, comes with a Cottingham Collection label too! Michael Cottingham’s Meteorite Collecting History and (Mini) Bio… I first started my cosmic journey with meteorites in 1996. I have always been interested in Natural History and ever since I was very young, I have collected rocks, fossils, artifacts and the like. In fact, I have been pretty darn good at finding unusual Natural History objects. However, I had never found a meteorite and I didn’t even know where to begin. So, I first started by buying a few specimens to see what they actually looked like. Then I would take these specimens out into the desert area where I live and I would place them on the ground. I was trying to train my “eye” to see differently. Sometimes, I would take my meteorite specimens and throw them as far as I could into the desert, and then I would go search for them. I started to
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