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28.15 gram individual in two halves..   CM1/2

TKW 2.55 kg. Observed fall 1 August 2020, Sumatera Utara, Indonesia.

Only 26 meteorites, to date, with this classification.


 


Raymond writes:
Today we finally received an individual from the new Indonesian fall directly from my contact in Indonesia who purchased it directly from the family who found it. After more than a month of travel via Kantar Pos (Indonesian mail system EMS) and being denied by customs and sent back to him in Indonesia, my friend really came through and traveled by bus nine hours to Medan, the provincial capital of North Sumatra, to send it via FedEx.

I was planning to offer pieces for sale, but these two pieces fit together perfectly, and right now, I want to appreciate them together. We are reluctant to offer them separately or break them into smaller fragments. We will have to offer them up together to anyone who is very interested in owning a unique individual, probably one of one or one of two individuals that exist in their entirety from this fall. Despite Metbull stating four individuals being found, I've only seen pictures of three. The hammer, the one that landed in the rice field and was mixed in with mud and dugout, and lastly ours...

At the moment, we don't have a price in mind yet but open to offers. We have a plethora of evidential records from who this came from in Indonesia (a local who lives in the strewnfield area) and exact coordinates of where it was found available to whoever buys it. Being a collector of carbonaceous chondrites ourselves, we aren't in any hurry.
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Arthur Wagner
 10/2/2020 8:51:48 AM
Your decision is totally understandable. Thank for sharing.
Bernd Pauli
 10/2/2020 7:33:41 AM
Yes, the do fit together snugly! Congrats on these little beauties!
Graham Ensor
 10/2/2020 5:05:58 AM
Beautiful specimen Ray.
matthias
 10/2/2020 4:32:23 AM
What a story, Raymond - stories like that belong essentially to meteorites. In any case: two wonderful pieces of a very rare class and an exceptional fall. Keep them together. Congrats.
Andreas Ruh
 10/2/2020 2:19:49 AM
Very nice individual. Congratulations!
 

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