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That’s over $15,000 per pound! Pieces of Mars rock can command similar prices, with a 4.25-pound piece selling for $63,000, approximately $15,000 per pound. Meteorites from the Moon are even ...
From 1979 to 1985, he was an official photographer of the Montreux Jazz Festival and tour photographer for Diana Ross, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Bob Seger, Harry Chapin and Neil Diamond. His images appear in dozens of albums and books. [4] [5] In the 90s, he photographed aesthetic meteorites as fine sculpture — a first. [6]
Northwest Africa 11789. NWA 11789 (also Buagaba) is a lunar meteorite that was found in the country of Mauritania. It has been broken into six fragments, which can be reassembled like a puzzle. For this reason, the meteorite is also known as The Moon Puzzle. [1]
In 2000, near Fukang, China, a Chinese dealer obtained a mass from Xinjiang Province, China, with a weight of 1,003 kilograms (2,211 lb).He removed about 20 kilograms (44 lb) from the main mass, and in February 2005, the meteorite was taken to the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, where it was seen by Dr. Dante Lauretta, a professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona.
Lunar meteorite. Large slice of NWA5000, the largest known lunar meteorite. It was found in the Sahara desert in 2007. [1] A lunar meteorite is a meteorite that is known to have originated on the Moon. A meteorite hitting the Moon is normally classified as a transient lunar phenomenon .
Peekskill meteorite. / 41.28639°N 73.91639°W / 41.28639; -73.91639. The Peekskill meteorite is the object resulting from a well-documented meteorite event that occurred in October, 1992, in Peekskill, New York, United States. [1] Sixteen separate video recordings document the meteorite burning through the Earth's atmosphere, whereupon ...
The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette[ 3] and originally known as Tomanowos by the Clackamas Chinook [ 4][ 5] Native American tribe, is an iron-nickel meteorite found in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the largest meteorite found in the United States and the sixth largest in the world. [ 6][ 7] There was no impact crater at the ...
The Muonionalusta meteorite ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈmuo̯nionˌɑlustɑ], Swedish pronunciation: [mʉˈǒːnɪɔnalːɵsta]) [ 1] is a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million years BCE. The first fragment of the ...
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