[meteorite-list] WEST & CHAIT AUCTION HIGHLIGHT RESULTS

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:35:37 -0400
Message-ID: <C7A03E09-1B6B-4895-834B-955114583028_at_dof3.com>

Folks:

I need to do a bit of fact checking. Mike Miller's largest recovery
at West is the ____th largest complete specimen found? Where does it
rank?

Also, several of you inquired why the Type 3 was pulled from the Chait
sale. At the time it was entered into the sale, an initial
investigation had shown it could be mildly exotic. Shortly
thereafter, it was determined that the meteorite is extremely exotic---
and far beyond what could have been imagined. It was then pulled
pending more work.

d,




Begin forwarded message:

> From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
> Date: March 21, 2009 10:01:41 PM EDT
> To: Meteorite-list List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] CHAIT AUCTION HIGHLIGHT RESULTS
>
>
> Here are the highlights of what was paid today (including 20%
> buyer's commission) at the Chait Natural History Auction:
>
>
> Dhofar 910 (Lunar) / 7.5 grams
> $4500 - $600/g
>
> NWA 2737 (Chassignite) / 1.25 grams
> $1920 - $1535/g
>
> Shisr 160 (Lunar) / 2.97 grams
> $4500 - $1515/g
>
> NWA 5000 (Lunar) / 10.45 grams
> $4800 - $460/g
>
> Kainsaz Partial Slice / 11 grams
> $840 - $76.35 gram
>
> Imilac Complete Slice / 129 grams
> $2100 - $16.25/g
>
> Muonionalusta Large Individual / 131,000 grams
> $31,200 - $0.24/g
>
> New Type 3
> [withdrawn]
>
> Arroyo Malo - Berduc / 118 grams
> $840 - $7.10/g
>
> New Algerian Silicated Iron / 283 grams
> $1080 - $3.80/g
>
> Unnamed Aesthetic Saharan Iron Meteorite / 14,000 grams
> $15,600 - $1.10/g
>
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Received on Mon 23 Mar 2009 04:35:37 PM PDT