[meteorite-list] Just how Willamette is it?

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:01:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <891351.55357.qm_at_web30705.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Any news on how much these items are selling for?

Adam


--- Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> Don't settle for partial Willametteness!
>
>
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/autocodes/countries/united-states-america/meteorite-auction-underway-$1157767.htm
>
> Meteorite auction underway
> Sunday, 28 Oct 2007 18:25
>
> Some of the universe's most expensive rocks are
> going under the hammer in the
> United States today.
>
> Bonhams and Butterfields of New York are hosting the
> auction of
> out-of-this-world objects, some of which are
> expected to sell for millions of
> dollars.
>
> Among the items on offer at the Historic Meteorites
> and Associated Americana
> sale is a 1,400lb Brenham meteorite with naturally
> occurring gemstones, the
> Claxton Mailbox meteorite whose "special delivery"
> made quite a dent and other
> specimens from the Moon and Mars.
>
> Bonhams' Ed Beardsley said: "It is a great privilege
> to host the first auction
> ever devoted to meteorites, and we could not be more
> thrilled given the
> spectacular offerings included in this sale."
>
> The top attraction, however, is the missing section
> of the extremely Willamette
> meteorite which sits ? without its missing section ?
> in the American Museum of
> Natural History.
>
> This 30lb section has an estimated value of up to
> $1.3 million (?0.63 million).
> Slivers of the rock have sold at auction before at
> prices exceeding five times
> the value of their equivalent weight in gold.
>
> Bovine fans with lesser spending power may be
> interested in a chunk of the only
> known fatal meteorite, which killed a Venezuelan
> cow. This is valued at as
> little as $3,000 (?1,461).
>
> "This could well be the first and last of such
> sales?you just can't top this,"
> Darryl Pitt of the Macovich Collection commented.
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