Lot 112
Mooresfort
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
£275
Description
Five fragments (5)
Dimensions
4g total
Footnote
Mooresfort (County Tipperary, Ireland) H5 xenolithic (stone) - fell August 1810
"After appearance of moving cloud and sounds like thunder, a stone of 7.75lb was seen to fall" - W. Higgins & M.C. Moore (1811).
Only one single stone was recovered from the Mooresfort meteorite fall, possibly because the townsfolk didn't expect more than one stone to have fallen, or perhaps it really was just a singular event. The British Isles are a small target for falling space rocks to hit and meteorite falls here are a very rare event.
Provenance: Natural History Museum, London