Lot 31
Long Island
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
£150
Description
End piece with polished face
Dimensions
153g, 5 x 5.5 x 3cm
Footnote
Long Island (Phillips County, Kansas, USA) L6 (stone) - found 1891
Several pieces, all belonging to just one fragmented stone meteorite and weighing together about 564kg, were found over a tiny area of about 5m long by 2m wide in the corner of Phillips County, three miles west of the town of Long Island.