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40.7 grams. 40 x 27 x 15 mm. Iron, IIAB
TKW 23 MT. Observed fall 12 February 1947, Primorskiy kray, Russia
     
Alexander writes:
As a follow-up on the comment section of Roving Reporterīs
Sikhote Alin pics which were recently presented (as MPOD of
12 April) I show you my latest aquisition of a small, but
beautifully sculptured Sikhote iron. I do this to contrast
the gun metal gray patina of Roverīs piece with a somewhat
different color of my specimen, which has sort of a slightly
reddish-brownish tinge to it, mainly seen in the regmaglypt
bowls, and less along the outer rims of these, as the result
of some weathering on wet soil.
This, along with the gun metal
gray patina of fresh pieces, looks very attractive to me. They,
Roverīs and my individuls, are both natural pieces, basically in
as-found condition, and have fortunately not been worked on
later, after picking them up, by brushing and artificial
post-blackening for the sake of selling them off more easily, as
was the fate of many of Sikhotes found. What an outrage!
I have
several Sikhotes in my collection, each of which has a slightly
different color/patina to it, thatīs exciting besides all the
different sculpturing, distortion of shrapnel or flawlessness of
undistorted pieces of this famous meteorite fall. |
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Alex Seidel
4/18/2020 4:41:40 AM |
Thanks a bunch, folks! Discussing the patina of pieces of Sikhote Alins, which were collected not long after the fall, but had been on basically wet soil for a few months, is quite instructive. By the way, thank you Paul for an immediate follow-up of Sikhote Alin pictures this morning, 18 April, two nice specimen now added to the collection of my dear collector friend Matthias, which correspond very well with my piece here from a visual point of view both in form and surface features. Attractive, ain*t it? |
Anne Black
4/17/2020 4:32:23 PM |
Very nice one, Alex. And I agree with all of you, this is the natural as-found look. And I agree with Matthias, how could they have that blue-grey look after even only a few months in a heavily forested, humid area? All the specimens collected by the Vernadsky Museum have that look, see the ones Paul posted for me on 9/28/2019 and 2/23/2020. |
John Divelbiss
4/17/2020 3:28:19 PM |
wonderful compact meteorite beauty...thank you Alex for sharing this example of a fine SA. |
matthias
4/17/2020 11:13:45 AM |
Now my coming out: I like them too that way : - ), noble velvet brown, covered by regmapglypts, distinctive shape. Congrazz, Alex. And yes, Andi, I agree to your doubt. We can be sure, more or less, about the black ones (cooked); about the silvery shining ones; and about these beautiful pieces with brownish patina. But the matt gray resp. blueish-gray ones? As far as I know the first expedition reached the SA strewnfield mid of 1947, about 4 months after touch down. Could they really look flawless, like freshly fallen from sky? |
Andi Koppelt
4/17/2020 7:15:19 AM |
Nice uncleaned Sikhote with lots of character ;-) I still question the argumentation that "unsoiled" gun blue colored Sikhotes are untreated if somebody states that it was an early find. |
Juergen / jnmczurich
4/17/2020 5:40:03 AM |
Sikhote-Alin is one of my favorite meteorites. I really like this very beautiful, typical individual with deep Regmaglypts and wonderfully preserved and unchanged rust patina. Congratulations, Alexp! |
Graham Ensor
4/17/2020 4:19:08 AM |
Nice natural piece. |
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