Lot 151
Santa Catharina
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
£525
Description
Individual with polished face
Dimensions
336g, 8.7 x 5 x 5.3cm
Footnote
Santa Catharina (Santa Catarina, Brazil) IAB-UNGR (iron) - found 1875
Large iron masses were found in clay overlying granite on the island of Sao Francisco, Lunay.
The total weight may have been as much as 25,000kg, although most of it appears
to have been sent to England to be smelted for nickel and subsequently lost.
Provenance: Dupont Collection, Planetary Studies Foundation, Illinois