Lot 67
Imilac
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection Part II
Auction: 17 August 2011 at 15:00 BST
£275
Description
two individuals/fragments (2)
Dimensions
12.7g and 13.1g
Footnote
Imilac (Atacama Desert, Atacama, Chile) Pallasite (stony-iron) - Found 1822:
This ancient meteorite owes its survival to having landed in the driest place on Earth - the Atacama Desert. On smaller specimens, the olivine crystals have weathered-out long before the metal matrix - a reversal of the normal sequence of events. This effect produces Imilac "skeletons"; artistic shapes of nickel-iron metal, containing voids and sharp, sculpted edges.