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Copyright (c) Darryl Pitt.
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6310 grams.298 x 158 x 57 mm. Iron, IIIAB
TKW 2 tons. Fall not observed. Found 1931, Northern Territory, Australia.
  
Darryl writes:
This Henbury is part of Christie’s Deep Impact Meteorite Auction.
When I began the Macovich Collection a loooong time ago, it was initially to provide an imprimatur to specimens I believed were unusually sculptural. I strongly felt they should be worth "more”, and there was a time — as recently as the early 90s — when they weren’t. Back then you could still pick-up the ugliest Gibeon imaginable for the exact same cost per unit weight as the most sublime aesthetic example ever seen.
Only when my Namibian sources noticed I was cherry-picking the "strange ones" was I informed the cost for those would go up...unless I bought the entire lot. Well, that's how I became a dealer; I bought them all for about $16/kg and flipped the ones I didn’t want for $25/kg thinking I was a genius. I just tried to find an emoji that would convey "idiot”.
All of which brings me to the following. I love anthropomorphic specimens and picked this Henbury up from Mike Farmer a few years ago in at a Tucson show and only as I started leaning into emojis did I realize this meteorite evoked the emoji for "Wow" 😮 as in, "Wowwww..😮...you really were an idiot!"
In addition to its intriguing guitar-like morphology and the quintessential Australian Outback patina, I think this is the perfect meteorite for the times in which we live:
– "Eyedrops are causing blindness and deaths" 😮
– "There are still unbelievably excellent opportunities available in Christie’s Meteorite auction" 😮
– "Using material from the NWA 8046 clan megafind, Pitt conceived of the first lunar necklace … maybe he’s not always an idiot" 😮
And then, given that the Aborgine term for the Henbury region is "Chindu China Waru Chingi Yabu” ("Sun Walk Fire Devil Rock”), it could very well be there were Aborigines who witnessed the fireball and their expressions were something like 😮
😉
Christie’s auction ends Tuesday, March 28th, and
here is the index to the entire auction.
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Darryl Pitt
3/26/2023 7:34:18 AM |
Yes!!!! And for everything else in life that provides joy as well...
(I've poignantly learned the notion of gratitude for my reality that is.)
All my best, Matthias |
matthias
3/26/2023 4:09:05 AM |
I agree, Darryl - absolutely right , there use to be different opportunities at different times. And I, having come too late for Gibeon and Henbury, and a little late for Sikhote, was lucky enough to be just in time for Taza, Gebel Kamil or Tissint etc. We have all reason to be thankful for the messengers falling down. |
Bernd Pauli
3/24/2023 2:01:43 PM |
I like those deep thumbprints and what they look like as described by Matthias! |
Darryl Pitt
3/24/2023 12:24:58 PM |
😊. Hi Twink! ✨✨👋✨
Mathias, thanks and do consider your not having arrived late. It*s all relative.There are simply different opportunities at different moments. I remember when Esquel jumped to $.75/g I thought I got in late! 😉 and I began to take a longer view*except for the notable exception described. 😱 |
Twink Monrad
3/24/2023 10:15:32 AM |
Yes WOW for sure in many ways! |
matthias
3/24/2023 5:42:46 AM |
Interesting report, Darryl - heroic times of collecting - I realize that I arrived a little late at the meteorite field. In any case: what a breathtaking Henbury, resembling also the ancestor of WOW:Edvard Munch's THE CRY. |
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