Lot 140
Dimmitt
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
£438
Description
Individual with polished face
Dimensions
1.17kg, 9 x 9 x 8cm
Footnote
Dimmitt (Castro County, Texas, USA) H4 (stone) - found 1942
Dimmit has had a long Earth age, resulting in weathering to the stone, though remarkably many specimens retain patches of fusion crust. Classified as an H4 chondrite, H5 & LL clasts have also been found within the breccia (a mix of different rock types), plus extremely fine grained interstellar diamonds.
Provenance: Monnig Collection, Texas Christian University