R.A. Langheinrich Meteorites: Meteorites for Sale

Many individual masses from this shower-producing meteorite have been recovered in Taza, Morocco, having a total weight of 75.3 kg. This meteorite has been assigned number 859 in the NWA series. Many of the masses have well-oriented shapes. Taza is chemically anomalous and unrelated to any established iron chemical group. However, Taza has an elemental composition very similar to the ungrouped, plessitic iron, Butler, and the two may be grouped together. They have an extremely high Ge concentration of ~2000 ppm (Taza varies from 1500-5000 ppm), four times higher than any other iron meteorite. A high Ni content of ~16% promotes kamacite to form discontinuous, pointed spindles, rimmed by taenite, having widths of ~0.15 mm. Tetrataenite (~50% Ni) forms a narrow border on some kamacite spindles. In the dense, fine-grained plessite matrix, this spindle pattern is repeated on a scale ten times finer to form a micro-Widmanstätten structure. This uncommon plessitic microstructure is transitional between the octahedrites and the ataxites. The text was written by Meteorite Studies for more information on Taza go to our links page and click on to Meteorite Studies.


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	Click image to enlarge SEYMCHAN Pallasite Magadan, Russia Found 1967
large slice that has been etched and finished. This Seymchan piece is very impressive with more metal than crystals the weight is 1,660 grams. The size of slce is 6.5 mm x 180 mm x 260 mm. [top photo ] Price $4,875
A large full slice that has been etched and finished. This Seymchan slice weight 3.45kg. The slice has a balance of cystals and metal. It is rare to have such a large slice of Seymchan that has been cut thin so you can view the light going threw the olivine cystals. The olivine crystals on this piece is just magnificent. This specimen also has a wonderful Windmanstattern pattern and has a gorgeous finish on the piece. It is a very impressive piece. The size of the slice is 6 mm x 360 mm x 450 mm. A museum quality specimen [bottom photo] [SOLD]


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	Click image to enlarge SEYMCHAN Pallasite Magadan, Russia Found 1967
Very large beautiful slice of Seymchan weight is 4,200 grams. The piece has a gorgeous finish. This specimen has (dark red, yellow and green) olivine crystals. Seymchan meteorite is a stable pallasite. A beautiful looking piece. The slice size is 6 mm" x 350 mm" x 557 mm" [Top photo] Price $39,500
A very large slice of Seymchan weight is 12.2kg. The specimen has been etched with a wonderful Windmanstattern pattern and has a gorgeous finish. The face size is 42 cm x 55.6 cm. This piece is mostly metal faze with a small amout of cystals on the upper edge. Seymchan meteorite is a stable pallasite. A museum quality specimen that is just beautiful looking. [Bottom photo] "CALL FOR PRICE"


	WITNESSED FALL SIKHOTE-ALIN Iron. (IIAB) Coarsest Octahedrite Maritime Territory, Russia Fell February 12, 1947 Approx. recovered weight: 27 Tons

Around 10:38 A.M. in the Sikhote-Alin mountains of eastern Siberia, people witnessed the largest single meteorite fall ever recorded. A huge roar was heared sending thousands of meteorite fragments onto the frozen ground. A shower of fireballs fell in thick forest in the Sikhote-Alin mountains,25 miles from Novopoltavka, Maritime Province, producing 106 impact holes, the largest 28 metres across, over an area 100 x 660 metres, and many fragments, up to 300 kg in weight, totalling over 27000kg, were found scattered inside and outside the holes. The shockwave from the explosion was felt hundreds of miles away. A dark funnel-shaped smoke was visable in the sky. The largest single mass was recovered weight 1745kg and has an oriented shield-like shape. Oriented regmaglyptsed individual and Shrapnel type fragments were found.
Complete oriented black indidual with regmaglypts 110.6 grams [top photo] price $302 ( top picture)
oriented beautiful black Individual with regmaglypts "note the lip around the other edge. 204 grams (bottom right photo) price $507
Complete oriented black Individual with regmaglypts 365 grams [bottom left side photo] price $876


	WITNESSED FALL Click image to enlarge SIKHOTE-ALIN Iron. (IIAB) Coarsest Octahedrite Maritime Territory, Russia Fell February 12, 1947 Approx. recovered weight: 27 Tons
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Fantastic grade A- black oriented individual 301.7 grams [top photo] price $752
Fantastic grade A- black oriented individual 206.6 grams [bottom photo] price $565


	WITNESSED FALL SIKHOTE-ALIN (SHRAPNEL) Iron. (IIAB) Coarsest Octahedrite Maritime Territory, Russia Fell February 12, 1947 Approx. recovered weight: 27 Tons

A shower of fireballs fell in thick forest in the Sikhote-Alin mountains,25 miles from Novopoltavka, Maritime Province, producing 106 impact holes, the largest 28 metres across, over an area 100 x 660 metres, and many fragments, up to 300 kg in weight, totalling over 27000kg, were found scattered inside and outside the holes. The shockwave from the explosion was felt hundreds of miles away. A dark funnel-shaped smoke was visable in the sky. The largest single mass was recovered weight 1745kg and has an oriented shield-like shape. Oriented regmaglypted individual and Shrapnel type fragments were found. These specimens are from the same fall, but are known as shrapnel specimens. They broke due to atmospheric pressure and/or mid-air collisions, and possibly also explosive fragmentation upon impact. The power and fury of an iron meteorite fall: ripped and torn edges reminiscent of bomb shrapnel.These pieces are very rare and are a good example of the shrapnel type Sikhote-Alin. "SPECIAL REDUCED PRICE"
Large shrapnel type fragment 335 grams (top picture) price SOLD
Large shrapnel type fragment "a very extraordinary looking piece " 412 grams (bottom left picture) price $200
Large shrapnel type fragment 415 grams (bottom right picture) price SOLD


	SANTA CATHARINA Iron. Ataxite, ungrouped (ATAX UNGR) Santa Catarina, Brazil Found 1875
Many large masses of this ungrouped, Ni-rich ataxite were found by Gonclaves da Rosa on the island of Sao Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The combined weight of the recovered masses was estimated to be at least 7,000 kg, but was probably much higher since a large portion was smelted to extract its unusually high content of nickel (~25-50%). Although much of this iron has been significantly oxidized, some metallic portions are preserved. The presence in Santa Catharina of the phosphide barringerite, a mineral usually unstable in association with metal, attests to a high cooling rate.
Large fragment (oxide) with collection number 505 grams "special sale" $725


	WITNESSED FALL SARATOV Stone. Chondrite (L4) Saratovskaya, Russia Fell September 6, 1918
At 3:00 in the afternoon, a bright fireball was seen and heard as several stones, totaling 328 kg, fell in Donguz and Belaya Gora, Russia. Saratov is not a typical L4 ordinary chondrite. It has a chondrule-rich composition with a friable matrix texture. More importantly, it contains a separate petrographic component - one consisting of highly porous, low-density, fine-grained aggregates, similar to interplanetary dust particles. This extremely fragile material, which was incorporated on the L chondrite parent asteroid, is usually vaporized as it enters the atmosphere; with Saratov, it can now be readily studied.
Part slice 55 g 26 mm x 26 mm x 37 mm $165 [lower picture]


	Click image to enlarge SEYMCHAN Pallasite Magadan, Russia Found 1967

This is gorgeous looking slice of Seymchan. The weight is 464 grams. Full slice that is mostly metal the size is 5 mm x 90 mm x 215 mm. This piece has a very impressive looking etched Windmanstattern pattern. It also has a few crystals on the bottom edge that are (dark red, dark green and yellow). The specimen has been finished on both sides. [top photo] Price $720
Full slice of Seymchan 735 grams is it a very beautiful looking specimen and has a great looking polish finished. The slice size is 6 mm x 107 mm x 230 mm. The specimen is mostly metal and also has a gorgeous etched Windmanstattern pattern. Seymchan meteorite is a stable pallasite. A beautiful looking piece. [ bottom photo] Price $1,100


	Click image to enlarge SEYMCHAN Pallasite Magadan, Russia Found 1967
This beautiful very large Seymchan pallasite slice is 17.1kg. This is one of the best larger looking slices available. This slice has the largest surface are that I have ever offered. It has a nice balance of crystals and metal. This specimen's crystals go from fine to larger and are visable. The piece has been etched with a wonderful Windmanstattern pattern and has a gorgeous finish on the piece. The specimen has areas that are encrusted with (dark red ,yellow and green) olivine crystals. Seymchan meteorite is a stable pallasite. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase such a large and impressive piece. "A real museum quality specimen." SOLD


	WITNESSED FALL Click image to enlarge SIKHOTE-ALIN (SHRAPNEL) Iron. (IIAB) Coarsest Octahedrite Maritime Territory, Russia Fell February 12, 1947 Approx. recovered weight: 27 Tons
A group lot of 11 pieces of Sikhote-Alin shrapnel fragments total of lot is 1kg [pictured] Price $400


	WITNESSED FALL Click image to enlarge TATAHOUINE Stone. Achondrite Diogenite (DIO) Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia Fell June 27 ,1931 Approx. recovered weight: 12 kg
complete individual 25.2 grams A good collectors specimen. price SOLD


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	Click image to enlarge TAZA (AKA NWA 859) Iron. Plessitic octahedrite (UNGR) Northwest Africa Found 2000
Many individual masses from this shower-producing meteorite have been recovered in Taza, Morocco, having a total weight of 75.3 kg. This meteorite has been assigned number 859 in the NWA series. Many of the masses have well-oriented shapes. Taza is chemically anomalous and unrelated to any established iron chemical group. However, Taza has an elemental composition very similar to the ungrouped, plessitic iron, Butler, and the two may be grouped together. They have an extremely high Ge concentration of ~2000 ppm (Taza varies from 1500-5000 ppm), four times higher than any other iron meteorite. A high Ni content of ~16% promotes kamacite to form discontinuous, pointed spindles, rimmed by taenite, having widths of ~0.15 mm. Tetrataenite (~50% Ni) forms a narrow border on some kamacite spindles. In the dense, fine-grained plessite matrix, this spindle pattern is repeated on a scale ten times finer to form a micro-Widmanstätten structure. This uncommon plessitic microstructure is transitional between the octahedrites and the ataxites. The text was written by Meteorite Studies for more information on Taza go to our links page and click on to Meteorite Studies.
End slice with fusion crust and a cut face. 511 grams The specimen has a good looking etched finish. Price SOLD
large individual with fusion crust and a cut face. 1,750 grams [bottom photo] The specimen has a good looking etched finish. A real good looking collectors piece Price SOLD


	WITNESSED FALL THUATHE Stone. Chondrite. (H4) Lesotho, Africa. Fell July 21, 2002. Approx. recovered weight: 35 kg

On a typical Sunday in July, at 3:49 pm, hundreds of witnesses over a 100 km radius heard a prolonged, loud noise, which heralded the fall of a meteorite over the small mountainous country of Lesotho. Several stones narrowly missed hitting some villagers as they went about their daily activities. Over 600 fragments of this H4/5 chondrite, totaling about 30 kg, have been recovered on the Thuathe Plateau, its cliffs, and in the surrounding valley. The strewn field, which measures 7.4 km by 1.9 km and includes nine villages, was plotted by Professor Ambrose (National University of Lesotho). The Professor also compiled a comprehensive catalogue, recording specific details on about 85% of all of the fragments recovered.
Individual with 95% fusion crust 17.3 g SOLD$87
Individual with 99% fusion crust 18 g SOLD
Individual with 96% fusion crust 19.3 g SOLD
Individual with 99% fusion crust 93.9 g SOLD [top picture]
Individual with 99% fusion crust 128.4 g SOLD [bottom left picture]
Individual with 90% fusion crust 137.6 g [bottom right picture] SOLD


	WITNESSED FALL Click image to enlarge TAMDAKHT Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5) Morocco Fell December 20, 2008
Large stone 8.31 kg A killer specimen with black fresh fusion crust [ call or e-mail for price]


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	WITNESSED FALL Click image to enlarge UDEI STATION Iron. Medium octahedrite (IA) with silicate inclusions Benue River, Nigeria Fell 1927
During daylight hours, a meteorite was seen and heard to fall near the railway station in Udei, Nigeria. A 103 kg silicated-iron was recovered from a shallow hole eight years later. Some reports tell of the existence of a second mass. Udei Station is a medium octahedrite with a high content of chondritic silicates and troilite, characteristic of the IAB group. Theories place an origin for this group within an impact melt pool, or in association with a crystallizing metallic core.
Slice 318 grams size 6 mm x 110 mm x 129 mm "good looking piece" [top photo] Price SOLD
Part end slice with fusion crust 32.8 grams face size is 29 mm x 32 [bottom photo] Price $350


	VACA MUERTA Click image to enlarge Mesosiderite (MES) Atacama Desert, Chile Found 1861 Approx. recovered weight: 99 kg
Over 4 tons of this brecciated, metal-silicate meteorite have been recovered in Atacama, Chile. Still, the pre-atmospheric mass is estimated to have been at least 10 tons. Vaca Muerta defines a strewn field with dimensions of 12 km x 2 km. Basaltic inclusions similar to cumulate eucrite material are present throughout this meteorite, but multiple lines of evidence suggest that mesosiderites and eucrites did not originate on a common parent body. Based on silicate matrix textures, Vaca Muerta has been placed into metamorphic subgroup 1A.
End slice 65.9 grams with a polished face. A very unusal mesosiderite. piece $480


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	Click image to enlarge ZAG Stone. H3-6 Morocco Fell 1998 All specimens are fresh collected in 1998 – 1999

Zag meteorite is very interesting meteorite. Zag is a breccia, fragment rock composed of angular pieces cemented together by a fine-grained matrix. It has rocky material, salt crystals, water ice, and radioactive isotopes.
Very nice fragment with 50 % fusion crust 279 grams. [Top photo] Price $980
Very nice individual 173 grams with 87% fusion crust. [ bottom photo] Price $865


	WITNESSED FALL ZHOVTNEVYI Stone. chondrite (H6) Donetsk, Ukraine Fell October10, 1938 Approx. recovered weight: 107 kg

This meteorite is H5 chondrite fell in Stalino, Ukraine during the night, October 9 or 10, 1938. It is shocked to stage S3.
Large part slice 206 grams with fusion crust 4.4 mm x 104 mm x 172 mm Specimen has nice metal veins. Excellent looking piece! price $1,250
Part slice with fusion crust 82.9 grams 7.5 mm x 54 mm x 62 mm [ lower left picture] price $575
Part slice 110.7 grams 7.5 mm x 56 mm x 98 mm [lower right picture] price $750