Graham Macleod
5/13/2016 12:50:32 AM |
Thanks John,
A great display and great information.
Cheers. |
MexicoDoug
5/9/2016 3:10:38 PM |
No way I'm selling my 3 microgram per capita share for $0.09 ($30,000/g)! A daily multivitamin tablet costs more.
If Christie's could hypothetically get a hold of 100 grams with no competition I think $10 million for just that would get the bidder kicked out the door by FBI bouncers! |
John Divelbiss
5/9/2016 2:21:45 PM |
Thanks Doug...it was bigger than I said but I really didn't focus on an estimated size while there. Let's see, a little 176 gram chunk of ALH 840001 - Say $5.3 million at $30,000/gram ? |
MexicoDoug
5/9/2016 11:30:12 AM |
The specimen's mass should be 176 grams, if that helps. |
John Divelbiss
5/9/2016 6:11:44 AM |
I should have described the size. It was the size of a golf ball or slightly bigger. I'm guessing it weighed 100 grams +/- 20g. JD |
Graham
5/9/2016 4:18:22 AM |
Very nice...any idea of size...difficult to work out without some scale reference.
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MexicoDoug
5/9/2016 1:30:16 AM |
Was the specimen in the photo beaten with an ice pick? It was originally 80% crusted! Perhaps it many requested it in the 9 year period it was classified as a diogenite (and is it possible some requests took a page from the Haag playbook?), and outside researchers went to town under the more liberal sample request procedure in place at that time...not to mention the demand for it after fossilized life was reported in it. Cutting with a saw was probably too wasteful. I'm curious why it appears so much proportion of crust was distributed for this exciting meteorite! This quite possibly is the most valuable meteorite ever found. |
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