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Dronino
3 December 2006, 11:00 PST
Los AngelesSold for US$956 inc. premium
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Ungrouped Iron (ataxite)
Dronino, Ryazan district, Russia
Dronino is comparatively new meteorite. It was found in July 2000 by Moscow resident, Oleg Gus’kov, during a mushroom collecting trip in the forest near the village of Dronino, in the Ryazan district. It took him almost three years to convince himself that the rusty object he found was indeed a meteorite before bringing it to the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOCHI) for proper identification. Immediately several scientific expeditions were sent to the field. During the summer they collected more than 600 fragments with the total weight of more that 300 kg. A detailed examination indicated that a huge meteorite shower occurred near Dronino around the 11th century A.D. Dronino meteorite has a fine-grained ataxitic (meaning: no structure) duplex texture consisting of two phases: camasite and martensite. Sulfide nodules of rounded, elongated and worm-like shapes comprise nearly 10% of the meteorite volume. The present specimen has a deeply sculpted form on the front and is more flat on the reverse. Rough surfaces—in certain instances forming parallel lines—particularly near the “cone” and on the reverse side, indicate the tremendous sheering forces the meteorite was subject to during its descent through the atmosphere. Measuring 10 x 7 x 4in
Dronino, Ryazan district, Russia
Dronino is comparatively new meteorite. It was found in July 2000 by Moscow resident, Oleg Gus’kov, during a mushroom collecting trip in the forest near the village of Dronino, in the Ryazan district. It took him almost three years to convince himself that the rusty object he found was indeed a meteorite before bringing it to the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOCHI) for proper identification. Immediately several scientific expeditions were sent to the field. During the summer they collected more than 600 fragments with the total weight of more that 300 kg. A detailed examination indicated that a huge meteorite shower occurred near Dronino around the 11th century A.D. Dronino meteorite has a fine-grained ataxitic (meaning: no structure) duplex texture consisting of two phases: camasite and martensite. Sulfide nodules of rounded, elongated and worm-like shapes comprise nearly 10% of the meteorite volume. The present specimen has a deeply sculpted form on the front and is more flat on the reverse. Rough surfaces—in certain instances forming parallel lines—particularly near the “cone” and on the reverse side, indicate the tremendous sheering forces the meteorite was subject to during its descent through the atmosphere. Measuring 10 x 7 x 4in
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Offered on a custon-made wooden stand.