Lot 77
Muonionalusta Meteorite End Piece
10 – 11 August 2020, 10:00 PDT
Los AngelesUS$4,000 - US$6,000
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Muonionalusta Meteorite End Piece
Iron-Nickel, Fine Octahedrite, Type IVA
Kiruna, Sweden
Possibly the oldest meteorite known to man, Muonionalusta impacted a site west of the border between Sweden and Finland, north of the Arctic Circle, approximately one million years ago. Lappland, the traditional home of the Sami people, is a remote pine forested land with large herds of reindeer, rivers and lakes, carved out by gigantic glaciers which covered this region as late as 11,000 years ago. In 1906, the first Muonionalusta meteorite was discovered by a child who, while kicking rocks, struck a heavy, rusty object, which was later identified as meteoritic. The present Muonionalusta specimen is a large end-piece with great aesthetics, featuring two large oval troilite inclusions, a beautifully etched Widmanstätten pattern of crystalization to the face and a crystallized surface to the reverse side, with "stepped formation". Weighing approximately 2749.1 grams and measuring 8 x 4 x 2 in
Kiruna, Sweden
Possibly the oldest meteorite known to man, Muonionalusta impacted a site west of the border between Sweden and Finland, north of the Arctic Circle, approximately one million years ago. Lappland, the traditional home of the Sami people, is a remote pine forested land with large herds of reindeer, rivers and lakes, carved out by gigantic glaciers which covered this region as late as 11,000 years ago. In 1906, the first Muonionalusta meteorite was discovered by a child who, while kicking rocks, struck a heavy, rusty object, which was later identified as meteoritic. The present Muonionalusta specimen is a large end-piece with great aesthetics, featuring two large oval troilite inclusions, a beautifully etched Widmanstätten pattern of crystalization to the face and a crystallized surface to the reverse side, with "stepped formation". Weighing approximately 2749.1 grams and measuring 8 x 4 x 2 in
