Lot 66
Lake Murray
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection Part II
Auction: 17 August 2011 at 15:00 BST
£275
Description
shale fragment
Dimensions
38.2g, 5.7 x 4.4cm
Footnote
Lake Murray (Carter County, Oklahoma, USA) IIB (iron) - found 1933:
A single mass of iron was found in a gully in 1933 and recognised as a meteorite in 1952.
The Lake Murray meteorite was recovered from undisturbed Antler Sandstone dating from the Lower Cretaceous period, indicating that Lake Murray landed in a near-shore shallow sea while these beds were being deposited about 110 million years ago. This meteorite has the oldest Earth-age known to science.
Provenance: Monnig Meteorite Collection, Texas Christian University