[meteorite-list] Major Meteorite Auction Tomorrow / Macovich _at_ Heritage Auction Galleries

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:12:06 -0400
Message-ID: <CCA25A20-DF49-4B4E-B920-85BD2BA829F2_at_dof3.com>

Hi there!

Tomorrow the following meteorites are being offered at Heritage
Auction Galleries in Dallas. Should you have any questions or wish
to be an absentee bidder, contact me at 917-213 -8265 or call
Heritage directly at 214-528-3500

The catalog in which these meteorites appear is the most beautiful
natural history catalog I've seen in the 14-years of such
auctions...and the meteorites aren't too shabby either. ;-)

Enjoy.....


At the intersection of modern art & science, this core sample of an
exotic meteorite contains olivine and peridot. The meteorite from
which this specimen was cut was recovered from the Atacama Desert---
the highest desert on Earth--and possesses a British Museum of
Natural History provenance.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot13.html


The largest piece of the Moon ever offered at auction and it's also
the main mass of the most recently discovered lunar meteorite.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot10.html


Aesthetic meteorites are rare, and this natural sculpture from outer
space is one such example. Although it's an abstraction of Michigan
(see http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080604/
NEWS06/80604103/1008/NEWS ) , this 75-pound nickel-iron mass
originates from the asteroid belt between Mars & Jupiter and fell to
Earth in Argentina.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot02.html



At 3/4 tons, this is among the larger iron meteorites known to
exist. Also from the asteroid belt...via China.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot01.html



Extraterrestrial tenderizer: the largest portion of the only
meteorite to have resulted in a documented fatality. It was a
cow....in Venezuela. Steak dinners followed.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot20.html



One of the largest slices of the single most researched meteorite--
and it happens to contain the oldest matter mankind can touch; it's
the first material to have condensed from the gaseous nebula from
which our solar system formed and is, in fact, true stardust.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot19.html



This extraterrestrial crystal ball is from a meteorite which fell
above the Arctic Circle. As a result of grinding the meteorite into
a sphere, the internal crystalline structure of an iron meteorite is
now dramatized in three dimensions.
http://www.macovich.com/lots/lot08.html




PREVIEWS: Wednesday June 5th through Sunday June 7th / 10:00a ?
6.00p

AUCTION: Sunday June 8th / 1.00p

Heritage Auction Galleries / 3500 Maple Avenue / Dallas, Texas
75219 / (214) 528-3500
Received on Sat 07 Jun 2008 10:12:06 AM PDT