[meteorite-list] Bingöl howardite fall
Michael Farmer
mike at meteoriteguy.com
Sat Nov 7 08:11:25 EST 2015
I've just left Bingöl Turkey with pieces of the new Howardite fall.
Bingöl. This is what we selected to buy in Bingöl. 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
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