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Sikhote Alin Oriented Meteorite - Museum Grade 3500g !

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Sold Date: 02/11/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Natural History

This is a great display specimen, and comes with wooden base shown. A complete specimen, and not shrapnel. It has it all... great regmaglypts, plainly oriented (bottom point is up and centered in the #9 photo held with my hand), a crater that almost made a hole completely through it, flow lines, and even a wave on the top side that is big enough to put your finger under!! The specimen measures 128mm x 106mm x 100mmand weighs about 3500gms, very heavy at almost eight pounds! This is unique opportunity to own a one of a kind collectors piece!!!

The largest Meteorite shower in historical time occurred in Eastern Siberia on February 12̧ 1947. In full daylighţ a fireball moved from north to south and about 10:38 A.M. local timȩ fragmented in the Earth's atmosphere. The debris covered an area of 1.6 km on the snow-covered western spurs of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains.

The unique phenomenon was observed by many eyewitnesses and has been the subject of numerouş very thorough studies by the Russian scientists.

At around 10:30 am on February 12, 1947, eyewitnesses observed in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Primorye, Russia, a large bolide brighter than the Sun that came out of the north and descended at an angle of about 41 degrees. The bright flash and the deafening sound of the fall were observed for three hundred kilometres around the point of impact not far from Luchegorsk and approximately 440 km northeast of Vladivostok. A smoke trail, estimated at 32 km long, remained in the sky for several hours.

As the meteorite — travelling at a speed of about 14 km/s — entered the atmosphere, it began to break apart, and the fragments fell together. At an altitude of about 5.6 km, the largest mass apparently broke up in a violent explosion.

Iron Meteorite (Sikhote-Alin Meteor) - Location: From Eastern Russia. These are part of the Sikhote-Alin meteor (found in 1947̧ weighed approx. 23 tons). The total volume was only approximately 60 cubic feet of material, or about the size of a sheet of plywood two feet thick! This has an iron/nickel composition (4% nickel).