SIKHOTE ALIN SCULPTURAL SHAPE IRON METEORITE INDIVIDUAL

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Meteorite: SIKHOTE ALIN
Country:
Russia
District:
Maritime Territory
Coordinates: 46° 9' N/134° 39'
E
Date of find: February 12, 1947
Type: IIB, Iron Meteorite
At around 10:30 am on
February 12
,
1947
,
eyewitnesses in the
Sikhote-Alin Mountains
,
Primorye
, Russia, observed a large
bolide
brighter than the
Sun
that came out of the north and descended at an angle of about 41 degrees. The bright flash and the deafening sound of the fall were observed for three hundred kilometres around the point of impact not far from
Luchegorsk
and approximately 440 km northeast of
Vladivostok
. A smoke trail, estimated at 32 km long, remained in the sky for several hours....
Sikhote-Alin is one of the
mainstay
pieces in every meteorite collection. Below are few images of piece that you would bid.
This stunning specimen has  an incredible sculptural shape and is covered with well defined remaglyptes, all these attributes make this specimen very collectable, thus making it worth a great deal more.
This piece is about 28 mm long and 13
mm
wide and 12 mm thick
HISTORY (wrote by Mike Martinez): The largest shower in historical time occurred in
Eastern Siberia
on February 12, 1947. The unique phenomenon was observed by many eyewitnesses and has been the subject of numerous, very thorough studies by the Russian scientists. In full daylight, a fireball moved from north to south and, about 10 :
38 A
.M. local time, fragmented in the Earth's atmosphere. When this iron fell it went off like a grenade. The debris covered an elliptical area of
1.6 km
on the snow covered western spurs of the
Sikhote
Alin
Mountains
. The apparent diameter of the bolide with its luminous envelope was estimated to be
600 m
. The brightness exceeded that of the sun, according to eyewitnesses, and the dust trail was observed for several hours before the particles precipitated or were scattered by the wind. Most of the impacting meteorites did not, however, penetrate the eluvial and alluvial debris, which covered the bedrock with 1 /
2 m
thick layers, and moreover, at the time of impact, were solidly frozen to a depth of one meter. Altogether 122 impact holes were found with diameters ranging from 26 to
0.5 m
and with depths ranging from 12 to
1 m
. It appears plausible that the incoming bolide had a mass of about 70 tons fell including dust. It split finally at an altitude of about
6 km
and scattered thousands of ragged fragments resembling bombshell fragments within an elliptical area. It is believed that many fragments were detached early in the flight and that these proceeded as "sputniks" along with the main mass. The small area over which specimens are scattered suggests that the meteorite broke up very late in the atmosphere. In many holes the impacting body had survived as an entity, but in a number of other holes it had broken up completely. One such hole furnished 464 specimens totaling
256 kg
. The largest unbroken individual specimen, was
1,745 kg
, was first discovered in
1950 in
a rather small pit. Several fragments had hit the trees of the dense taiga forest and had either broken them or damaged them. A
13.6 kg
specimen was thus found firmly embedded in a partly split,
70 cm
thick cedar tree.
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