Ramsdorf
£320
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection Part II
Auction: 17 August 2011 at 15:00 BST
Description
fragment
Dimensions
1.036g
Footnote
Ramsdorf (Borken, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) L6 brecciated (stone) - fell 26th July 1958:
A single stone weighing 4.6kg was all that was recovered from this fall.
Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 1467: "Ramsdorf contains not only clast-poor impact melt, but also a chondritic portion of well-defined chondritic texture. Studies suggest that most (~90 vol%) of the chondritic portion was melted by shock and that Ramsdorf was produced by melting of a type 3-4 chondrite and crystallization in situ. The shock stage of this rock may be the highest among ordinary chondrites and other rocks, namely shock stage S6+."
Sadly, the 4kg Ramsdorf main mass was stolen from the finder in Borken, during a break-in on 5th February 2001, meaning that very little of this meteorite is still accounted for. The Ramsdorf specimen offered here was acquired from a German professional meteoriticist, long before the raid.