Abbott, New Mexico, H6, slice, 10 g
Ahumada, Mexico, Pallasite, slice, 10.9 g - Very nice small slice of this pallasite showing black olivine crystals. Priced at about $27.50/g, $300.
Al Mahbas, Western Sahara, Pallasite, 4.54 g
Albin, Wyoming, Pallasite, slice, 94 g
Allende, Mexico, CV3, 6.7 g
Beaver Creek, British Columbia, Canada, H4, observed fall, fragment, 0.1 g
Chinga, Turvinskaya, IV-B anomolous, ataxite, 54.6 g - This slice has a little bit of oxidation on either face. Priced at $2/g, $109.00 for the piece. This slice has a nice, bright polished surface, but chose a photo that clearly showed what oxidation there actually is on this slice.
DaG 749, CO3 - Two cut fragments. On the left, 4.42 g with cut face. On the right, 3.02 g, cut face showing a small crack running through the sample. $10 per gram.
Esquel, Argentina, Pallasite, part slice, 59.9 g
Glorieta Mountain, Pallasite, 95.7 g - A very nice whole specimen. I purchased this one in 1989, so it is not from the newer finds in this location. Priced at $20/g, $1900 for the piece.
Happy Canyon, Texas, EL - Impact Melt Breccia - These two pieces came from one long narrow slice that broke on it's way to me in shipping. There are a couple different lithologies here, and the break occurred in the midst of one of them. Priced at $25/g. At left, 2.7 grams, $67.50; At right, 4.7 grams, $117.50.
Huckitta, Northern Territory, Austrailia, Pallasite, 40 g - A nice slice of this classic pallasite. $40.
Imilac, Chile, Pallasite, slice, 20.9 g
Imilac, Chile, Pallasite, end piece, 25.8 g - Nice small end piece showing the outer weathered surface as well as interior cyrstals. $516.
Kapoeta, Sudan, Howardite, part slice / micromount, .15 g - An expertly prepared micromount of the classic howardite. $65.
Kelly, Colorado, LL4, part slice, 35mm x 25mm x 6mm, 20.3 g
Molong, Australia, Pallasite, two cut fragments - Two nice little pieces for which my pictures simply do not do justice. On the right, 0.4 g consisting of three crystals separated by very thin veins of metal. Priced at $35/g, $14 for the piece. Sample weighing 0.9 g on the left is sold.
Nogoya, Argentina, CM2, fragment / micromount, 50 mg
Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, Mexico, H5, whole, 16.3 g
NWA 801, CR2, cut fragment, 3.5 g - A fine example of the features of a CR chondrite. $105.
NWA 978, R3.9, complete slice, 1.1 g - Nice thin slice. $20.00.
NWA 1914, Howardite, slice, 1.2 g - $120
Sikhote-Alin, Russia, II-B, coarsest octahedrite, 242.3 g
Sommervell County, Texas, Pallasite, cut fragment and crumbs, 2.74 g
Tatahouine, Tunisia, Diogenite, observed
fall, two cut fragments - On the left, 4.35
g,
on the right, 0.4 g. $65 and $7.50 respectively.
Sample on the left sold.
Theil Mountains, Antartica, Pallasite, 29.8 g - This is a thin slice of a very stable and extremely difficult to find pallasite. Very few meteorites from Antartica have made it into private hands, and this is the only pallasite. This is a very nice specimen and has been one of my favorites for years. Priced at about $275/g, $8195.00 for the slice.
Rarely seen in private collections and even more rarely in this size. A museum quality piece. Comes in a Riker mount. Again, my photograph does not do this sample justice.
Vaca Muerta, Chile, mesosiderite, end piece, 54.5 g - Another one of my earliest acquisitions. A classic example of a mesosiderite. This is a nice end piece showing both matrix and the outer weathered surface. Priced at $5 / gram, $272.50 for the piece.
Vaca Muerta Eucrite Inclusion, Chile, end piece, 49.6 g
Wolf Creek, Australia, Medium Octahedrite - IIIB, whole shale ball, 25.5 g
Zagami, Nigeria, Shergotite, cut fragment, 3.4 g
Bediasite tektite, Texas, USA, whole, 10 g
Rizalite tektite, Phillipines, whole, 41 g - This is a very nice flattened sphere with lots of grooves and character. $82.
Columbianite, pseudo-tektite, Columbia, South America - These are two nice examples of this native glass. On the left is a 32.6 g end piece and on the right a 19.8 g whole piece with just a couple minor chips. Priced at $88 for the larger end piece and $59.40 for the smaller individual.
Tektite / impact glass collection - A small collection with lots of variety. There are two Muong Nong tektites, 67 and 60.2 grams, one indochinite weighing 32.5 grams, four small Austrailites weighing a total of 5.4 grams, and a nice 12.9 gram sample of Darwin impact glass with lots of character from Austrailia. $125 for the set.
Impactite collection - This is a collection of 7 slices and cut fragments of impact materials from craters around the Earth. It includes Lake Wanapitei suevite, Lake Wanapitei fallback breccia, Glover Bluff, WI breccia, Sudbury impact melt glass, Sudbury black onaping fallback breccia, Saarijarvi crater impact melt breccia, and Aufhausen Nordlinger-Ries crater fallback breccia. The total weight of all 7 samples is 442.5 g. $275.
Handbook of Elemental Abundances in Meteorites, Mason, (softbound, only slightly used)
Brazilian Stone Meteorites, Gomes/Keil, (new, hardbound)
31 Issues of Popular Astronomy Magazine - In addition to the interesting articles on astronomy from the period, there are regular articles and reports on meteors and meteorites. H. H. Nininger was a regular contributor. For example, the June/July 1934 issue has an article by Nininger titled "Great Meteor of March 24, 1933. The entry for the "Notes from the Society for Research on Meteoritics" in the same issue and also by Nininger discusses a new find from Morgan County, Colorado, the Weldona meteorite. The issues include:
1934: Jan, May, Jun/Jul, Aug/Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec / 1935: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun/Jul, Nov, Dec
1936: Jan, Feb, Apr, May, Jun/Jul, Aug/Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec / 1937: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Jun/Jul, Aug/Sep, Oct
Sold as a set only, $155.