Lot 90
Jilin
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
£1,250
Description
Fusion crusted fragment
Dimensions
1.62kg, 19 x 10.5 x 9.5cm
Footnote
Jilin (Jilin, China) H5 (stone) - fell 8th March 1976
After a fireball and several loud detonations, a shower of stones fell totalling around 4 tonnes. The largest piece recovered weighed almost 2 tonnes.
The Jilin event is the largest fall of stony meteorites on record. Of the 4 tons recovered, one piece weighing 1.77 tons produced an impact pit 6 metres deep. This huge mass fell only 200 metres from a house and is the largest piece of stone meteorite ever found.