Lot 38
Tatahouine
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
£125
Description
Two fragments (2)
Dimensions
17.4g total
Footnote
Tatahouine (Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia) Diogenite (stone) - fell 27th June 1931
This diogenite achondrite type meteorite fell from a daytime fireball over the Desert in 1931 and was witnessed by the local Bedouins who collected the few fragments that fell. The larger mass blew itself apart very late and low during atmospheric passage, resulting in the complete lack of fusion crust and most of the collected fragments being less than a gram in weight.