[meteorite-list] Bonham's auction

From: Elizabeth Warner <ewarner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 09:21:50 -0400
Message-ID: <4BE6B6EE.30404_at_umd.edu>

They've got a couple of other 'meteorites' available... the one from the
POD is out of the display box... the Zagami doesn't look like the other
slices I could find pictures of online... Of course it doesn't help that
there is no scale indicated.... There's also a slice of LA 002... The
only one that looks authentic to my very untrained eyes is the Campo...

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?screen=MySearchResults&saction=search&sFreeText=Mars%20Meteorite

There is a contact name/number listed on those pages...

Clear Skies!
Elizabeth




ensoramanda at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Hi Kieron, All,
>
> Looks to me like one of the Martian individuals going around that can be purchased at a much lower price because it has not been put through its paces and properly classified and paired with that number or all the other numbers I have seen. The presentation looks really crude too...badly photoshopped label and knifed hole.
>
> I wonder what provenance has been checked buy the auctioneers?
>
> Graham, UK
> ---- Kieron Heard <kieron.heard at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> Here is an interesting one - an NWA meteorite from the Mohave Desert!
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/7690889/Pi
>> ctures-of-the-day-7-May-2010.html?image=17
>>
>> A visit to Bonham's website confirmed that the name should read NWA 4857.
>> Even then I am a little confused - the stone being auction is described as
>> whole and fusion crusted, with a mass of 3.64g, but the MetSoc database
>> describes NWA 4857 as a single stone of 24g. Something doesn't add up.
>>
>>
>> Regards, Kieron
>>
>>
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