[meteorite-list] Bingöl howardite fall

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 14:11:25 +0100
Message-ID: <343EBBB5-C283-4A11-B147-1228BE597B8F_at_meteoriteguy.com>

I've just left Bing?l Turkey with pieces of the new Howardite fall.
Bing?l. This is what we selected to buy in Bing?l. Needless to say the price was almost extortion. But we brought enough cash to sway them to allow us to select only what we wanted, which was the best pieces. We had more than $50,000 in cash and blew through it in minutes.

Available pieces. ALL 100% crusted unless noted.

71.8g AWESOME STONE Oriented. Clear glass fusion crust showing all clasts inside on rounded face. Extremely mirror like crust on sides and back. Flow lines and rollover lip. $10,000

55.2 g AWESOME STONE $9600

32.8 g $4900

24.3 g tiny chip ~1mm $3600

17.897 radial flow lines on flat face. Unreal piece. $3100

17.627 tiny chip 5x3 mm $2600

15.435 some secondary crust $2300

10.179 rollover lip. $2000

10.137 incredible star burst flow lines everywhere. $2000

6.407 flow lines everywhere $1280

4.189 oriented nosecone extremely bubbly backside $850

3.92 g radial flow lines $785

3.246 g $650

2.556 g $510

2.198 g oriented bullet! $440

1.425 g awesome extremely glassy crust $285

1.335 g $265

1.265 g $250

Last but not least, incredible
Oriented round nose-cone with very thick black mirror glass bubble backside.
0.769 gram! $250

Michael Farmer
Received on Sat 07 Nov 2015 08:11:25 AM PST