Description
On offer: a nice 0.82g part slice of this rare historical meteorite fall.
Dimensions: ~16 x 5 mm
What you get: this 0.82g part slice, a plastic box with label at the back, a signed Certificate of Authenticity.
Type: L/LL6 chondrite
Country: USA, Arizona
Date of fall:July 19, 1912
Total mass: 220 kg
The Holbrook Fall and sample recovery: At 7:15pm on the evening of 19th July 1912, a bright fireball appeared in the sky above Navajo County, Arizona . After several loud detonations, approximately 16,000 mostly pea-sized stones fell near the Arntz siding of the Santa Fe Railroad, 7 miles from the town of Holbrook. A search orchestrated by W.M.Foote resulted in nearly 220 kg of material being recovered; samples were exchanged with a great many of the World’s Museums. In 1931 Harvey Nininger revisited the site and was able to find another 23 kg that had originally been missed. One of us (EKG) returned again in 1968 and found a further ca 1.5 kg specimen. Meteorite hunters have been going back to Holbrook ever since in the hope of more finds. For example in 2001 a group of 45 searchers accumulated 440 g of previously overlooked L6 group meteorite fragments. In 2011, the 99th anniversary of the event, Rubin Garcia located 11 mini-meteorites.
More information : https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20130011046/downloads/20130011046.pdf
