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

[Darryl Pitt]

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