Lot 73
Glenrothes
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection Part III
Auction: 20 August 2013 at 15:00 BST
£350
Description
polished fragment
Dimensions
0.962g
Footnote
Glenrothes (Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, UK) H5 (stone) - found summer 1998
The Glenrothes meteorite is the first ever meteorite to be found on British soil.
Several small fragments were found in relative close proximity to each other by Rob Elliott, and considered to be part of a small individual stone meteorite, which broke apart and fragmented during many years of freeze/thaw exposure to the UK's cold & damp weather. The total known weight of this find is around 20g.
This specimen is the second biggest piece of the Glenrothes meteorite; the largest 1.1g piece was donated to the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.