1,691 gram Sikhote Alin flight-marked iron meteorite individual, witnessed fall

1,691 gram Sikhote Alin flight-marked iron meteorite individual, witnessed fall:
$6270.00

Spectacular Sikhote Alin individual This is a complex 1,691.41gram (3.72 pound) Sikhote Alin individual measuring ~ 110 by 85 by 65 mm. It has a lot going on. The surface is well-preserved, with large patches of fresh fusion crust (~75%), and some great torn and ripped areas from late stage atmospheric break-up and impact (~25%). It's a great hand-sample. It has been lightly cleaned and oiled.The single largest meteorite fall in modern history occurred on February 12th, 1947, at ~10:38 am local time. In Primorsky Krai, a remote northEastern province of Russia, locals watched as a massive fireball and smoke train rapidly traversed the sky.The flash from the terminal explosion and sonic effects were seen and heard over three hundred kilometers from the site of the fall. The fragments that reached the ground made at least 120 craters and impact pits. The largest crater measured over 26.5 meters across, and, according to E.L. Krinov, was made by no fewer than eight individual meteorites that all impacted in very close proximity to each other.The largest meteorites recovered were found in the smaller impact pits. All of the larger meteorite fragments that survived the atmospheric passage to make craters violently shattered upon impacting the frozen ground and bedrock. These destructive impacts produced the tonnes of shrapnel iron meteorite fragments commonly associated with the fall. Jagged metal fragments weighing up to 45kg were found scattered amongst the craters’ rubble, laying about the surrounding taiga, and were often found halfway through any trees left standing in the immediate vicinity of the craters.The estimated total weight of the meteorites that survived atmospheric entry ranges from 70 to 100 metric tonnes. The largest recovered individual weighed 1,700 kilograms.
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