Blaine Reed Meteorites for Sale - List 224

Blaine Reed

P.O. Box 1141

Delta, CO 81416

Ph/fax
(970) 874-1487                                                                                                                               

                                                                      LIST 224

April 2, 2019

Here is an assortment of consigned items that I will be returning to their owner while visiting the Denver Spring Show next week (I will be gone from the 10^th through the 15^th for this event and other things). So, I won’t have easy access to the things listed here after next Wednesday.

The show itself is at the same location I set up at for the fall show (Crowne Plaza DIA – 15500 E. 40^th Ave). The show opens at 10am each day (Friday the 12^th through Sunday the 14^th) and is open until 6pm the first 2 days and 5pm on Sunday. I don’t set up at this show but I will visit it fairly extensively from Friday afternoon through mid day Sunday. I’ll have a room at the show hotel Friday and Saturday nights. So, if any of you out there want to meet (let me know if there are any things you want me to bring from any of my recent offerings) let me know and we’ll make arrangements (I’ll give you the cell number I’ll have while I am at the show to make it easier).

BELMONT, Wisconsin: Ordinary chondrite (H6), veined. Found 1950. Tkw = 25.3kg.

This is the last piece I have of this meteorite. I have had it for quite some time but I have not had it set out for high visibility for quite some time (it is usually in a bag in my tub full of bags of meteorites that I have had go through my various, more obvious Riker displays at shows for a year or so first). This is a part slice that has weathered fusion crust along ½ of its edge. The remaining edge is either cut (the short dimension length listed below) or a break/ fracture edge. The interior shows lots of really fine metal grains, some dark chondrules in a chocolate brown matrix. I’m offering this as it is initially, but I think it would be OK for me to break this into some smaller pieces if this does not sell intact first and any of you are wanting a smaller specimen.

                78.5 gram part slice – 85mm x 45mm x 5mm - $1150

INDOCHINITES: Vietnam, from Dr. Nininger.

Here is a nice assortment of teardrop tektites that Dr. Nininger recovered years ago. I think I have had some of these in the past BUT I think mine were not labeled. Nope, I don’t have paper labels with these, unfortunately, but all of these do have catalog numbers painted on them by Dr. Nininger (the numbers painted on each is listed after the weight below).

1)       Teardrop specimens:

a)       10.6 grams (V6011) – 30mm x 17mm x 15mm - $106

b)       16.3 grams (V6300) – 65mm x 15mm x 12mm - $163

c)       21.4 grams (V7137) – 55mm x 20mm x 17mm - $214

d)       23.1 grams (14V228) – 57mm x 20mm x 18mm - $231

NWA (5484): HED achondrite (diogenite). Found 2008. Tkw = 328grams.

This is more of the material I had (and sold out of) some years ago (I sold several pieces when I put this material out in Tucson this year). This is the diogenite that looks pretty much identical to the Alan Hills 84001 Martian which WAS originally classified as a simple diogenite at first but is now Mars’ only classified known “orthopyroxenite”. The slices listed here each have some fusion crust along their edges and the end pieces have good crust coverage (around 70%) of their backsides.

1)       Slices:

a)       1.8 grams – 18mm x 10mm x 3mm - $45

b)       3.5 grams – 33mm x 12mm x 3mm - $85

c)       4.3 grams – 40mm x 12mm x 3mm - $105

2)       End pieces:

a)       3.5 grams – 19mm x 12mm x 6mm - $85

b)       10.2 grams – 40mm x 17mm x 6mm - $230

NWA (7325): Anomalous achondrite. Found 2012. Tkw = 345+g.

Well, this is actually a pairing to that original find. This is the strange stuff that some pieces have a bizarre bright green fusion crust (the fragment listed below is the only piece that shows some of this – a roughly 2mm x 2mm patch). The low iron content, the “ basaltic” nature of this, indicating an origin from a somewhat large parent body has some believing that this MAY be from the planet Mercury. However, I seem to recall that this material has a quite ancient crystallization age so this origin story is somewhat unlikely (unfortunately). Regardless, this is a strange meteorite and very little was ever recovered (so prices never came down much on this).

1)       Slices:

a)       .05grams – 5mm x 4mm x 1mm - $50

b)       .52 grams – 13mm x 10mm x 1mm - $450

c)       .87 grams – 16mm x 12mm x 1mm - $750

d)       2.47 grams – 25mm x 16mm x 2mm - $2100

2)       Fragment: 1.55 grams – 13mm x 12mm x 7mm - $1250. Has 2mm x 2mm patch of green crust.

NWA (10153): Martian (Nakhlite). Found December 2014. Tkw = 119g.

This is actually a pairing (by Dr. Agee at UNM) to the 10153 original reported find. This is a bit different in appearance from other nakhlites I have seen. This has a granular texture with a mix of crystals that are green, tan and pink – looking very much like a terrestrial granite to some degree. Some of these pieces have a little bit of resin on their edges – as I suspect that such was needed to keep this material from turning into a pile of dirt during cutting.

1)       slices:

a)       .40 grams – 12mm x 7mm x 1.5mm - $280

b)       .86 grams – 14mm x 11mm x 2mm - $600

c)       1.60 grams – 21mm x 12mm x 3mm - $1100

d)       2.17 grams – 22mm x 15mm x 3mm - $1500

OWASCO, Nebraska: (L6). Recognized 1984. Tkw = 168.4 kilograms.

This is a cut end piece/ bookend specimen that has a Huss number (H441.10) painted on it and comes with an American Meteorite Laboratory label. However, this label indicates that this piece was larger at some point in the past. The listed weight on the label was originally 1087.4 grams.

                320.1 gram ½ end piece/ bookend – 95mm x 50mm x 40mm - $1100 

Blaine Reed Meteorites For Sale - List 151

Blaine Reed

P.O. Box 1141

Delta, CO 81416

Ph/fax (970) 874-1487

…………………………………………………………………LIST 151

April 1, 2014

Dear Collectors,

I think this is my last “after Tucson” list. Now I’ll have to dig around to come up with new future offerings (I need to get a mailed list pulled together soon as well – it’ll be a busy couple weeks ahead). This is going out a bit later than I would have liked as I went to Montrose (and took longer than expected) to look at some potential meteorites (none were, unfortunately) and buy an old broken pocket watch. I will try to keep on top of e-mails this afternoon but there may be a couple issues. First, I do have some people coming over later (mine and Blake’s birthday – now over the hill at 50 even) so I may not get to check as often as usual. In addition we have ferocious winds right now. High winds like this, for some reason, often knock out our internet/ DSL connection. Strange, I thought it was all wires in the ground. Anyway, I’ll do my best to keep checking (the phone should always work, though we lost power and phone for an hour or so a few days ago during a wind storm as well).

DHOFAR (1286), Oman: (Eucrite), polymict breccia. Found December 2005. Tkw = 848 grams.

Two pieces that fit together were found about 30 meters apart. This meteorite contains clasts/ fragments of various compositions and colors – making it look very much like a howardite. However, this lacked enough pyroxene to be classified as a howardite. I recently sold out of what I had of this meteorite (and tossed out the remaining info cards) but then picked up a few more pieces in Tucson (and re-made new cards).

a)       2.0 gram slice – 20mm x 17mm x 2.5mm - $25

b)       4.2 gram slice – 42mm x 20mm x 2mm - $50

c)       6.8 gram slice – 35mm x 25mm x 3mm - $75

d)       20.2 gram end piece – 40mm x 20mm x 16mm - $200

IMILAC, Chile: Stony-iron (Pallasite). Found 1822.

This is a beautiful ¼ slice (2 cut edges at right angle to each other with the remainder being a long natural edge). This is cut super thin so light passes through all of the crystals. This fantastic material has gotten hard (and expensive) to acquire these days. I think this is the first thin slice of Imilac I have had in several years or more. A simply stunning display piece.

                22.9 gram part slice – 55mm x 55mm x 1.5mm - sold

NWA (769): (Eucrite), unbrecciated. Found November 10, 2000. Tkw = 712 grams.

I don’t think I have ever had any pieces of this meteorite before. I got a small lot of fragments, cut fragments and a couple slices at the show. Most of this does indeed look very similar in texture to typical Millbillillie but with much smaller crystal size (really fine-grained). However, a couple pieces do show some uniform (pretty much no crystal texture visible) light gray clasts. Most of the fragments and cut fragments have some (some pieces quite a lot) of nice dark crust that has not had its texture wind-polished away.

a)       2.0 gram slice – 20mm x 10mm x 4mm - $25

b)       3.9 gram fragment – 20mm x 15mm x 10mm - $49 – 12mm x 15mm crust.

c)       5.4 gram slice – 30mm x 18mm x 5mm - $67

d)       10.9 gram end piece – 23mm x 15mm x 17mm - $135 – back ~ 35% crust.

e)       15.8 gram end piece – 35mm x 17mm x 16mm - $195 – back 40%+ crusted.

f)        38.0 gram end piece – 55mm x 30mm x 17mm - $450 – back over 50% crusted.

NWA (7325): Ungrouped achondrite. Found 2012. Tkw = 345+ grams.

This is the stuff that showed weird green fusion crust on the rare pieces that had crust. Its low iron content, texture and other features have led some to believe that this may be from the planet Mercury (though others would argue that this material is far too ancient to be from a body of that size). Regardless, this is strange and unique material no matter where it came from. I have a few cut pieces and one fragment (that actually does have a small 3mm x 2mm patch of the weird green crust) that I picked up from Matt in Denver back in December but only recently got around to cataloging them.

                a) .61 gram slice – 18mm x 10mm x 1mm - $580

                b) .87 gram end piece – 14mm x 10mm x 4mm - $785

                c) 1.54 gram fragment – 13mm x 12mm x 7mm - $1400 – has small patch of     crust.

                d) 1.68 gram slice – 28mm x 16mm x 1mm - $1590

NWA 8159: Martian. Augite basalt. Found 2013. Tkw = 149.4 grams.

This is one that brings up mixed emotions for me. I am thrilled at its discovery as I am the one that pretty much discovered this gem. It was in the “likely junk to go out to the rock garden” pile that a fellow meteorite dealer had at the 2013 Denver Show. He had me going through MANY (easily over 100) rocks to see what might be important (with the rain and flooding during the show, I had plenty of time for this and found it, at times, to be an interesting distraction). I saw this one in the “junk” pile and commented that it most definitely was a meteorite as it had clearly visible shock veins. Thankfully, he had cut the thing so I had a cut surface to run the XRF on. I expected the thing to come up as a Eucrite, as that is pretty much what the thing looked like. HOWEVER, the chemistry of the thing came up as MARTIAN! At that point, the owner said that if this turned out to be the case he would give me “a complete slice of like 20grams” (gads, I wish I had gotten THAT in writing now). Anyway, not only did this thing turn out to be Martian, it turned out to be a completely new type of Martian! It has some similarities to various features of Nakhlites and Shegottites but yet is overall different. I did indeed get a package from the owner containing a sample for my helping in the discovery once this was officially reported. It contained a 2.2g block. I double/ triple checked the box to be sure I didn’t miss anything else in the packing material. Nope, nothing. I figured more would come later after cutting. I checked the Meteoritical Bulletin report for the thing and it did list me as having some of this (but unfortunately not anything about my part in the discovery) and it did indeed confirm that my share was indeed 2.2 grams. Now don't get me wrong, I am thrilled to have this (certainly better than NOTHING which is easily what I could have ended up with). I guess I am being a little greedy myself. A couple grams certainly will change my month, but 20grams would have changed my year (but then, I would have found it really difficult to break up a complete slice). I split the thick block into two thinner slices and then broke those up into the pieces listed here. I have already sold some and am keeping a small piece for myself so I have less than 1.25 grams total to sell.  The price is going to seem really high BUT this is right about what much larger pieces were selling (and pieces were indeed selling) for per gram in Tucson. The price has supposedly been raised (right after the show) to $8159/ gram. Given what the other unique Mars rock “Black Beauty” has been bringing, this is probably not all that unreasonable or surprising. Anyway, get em while I got em. I’ll give the contact info for the holder of the main portion of this material if I run out or you really need something bigger than I have here. All of these pieces are in a membrane box.

a)       .042 gram slice – 3mm x 3mm x 2mm - sold

b)       .080 gram slice – 4mm x 4mm x 2mm - $420

c)       .115 gram slice – 6mm x 4mm x 2mm - sold

d)       .335 gram slice – 9mm x 7mm x 2mm - sold

e)       .580 gram slice – 11mm x 9.5mm x 2mm - $2900

SMARA, Western Sahara. Achondrite (Eucrite), polymict breccia. Found 2000. Tkw = 12.87 kilograms.

Here is a eucrite that came from the NWA area but has an actual name and known find location. In addition, this is interesting in that it is a breccia containing clasts of many types (including subophitic basalts, granular microgabbros and impact melt clasts). I have two piece that were once one; a long part slice that I managed to break (not intentionally however) during transport back home from the show.

                19.0 gram part slice – 35mm x 34mm x 6mm - $230

                25.1 gram part slice – 45mm x 35mm x 6mm - $300

SPRING WATER, Canada: Stony-iron (Pallasite). Found 1931.

Here is a fairly small block that I have left exactly as I got it. It is a piece that is cut on all sides. It has not been polished or coated but yet still shows bright metal (with no distinct rusting) and nice bright crystals. I think that this was an old research work piece as it is in a research type snap lid plastic vial. This also has the number 135d written on it in black ink (a big part o the reason I left this thing alone – handling while polishing or the spray coating material could have easily destroyed this feature) indicating that this was likely cut from the early Nininger Spring water specimen.

                11.67 gram block – 17mm x 14mm x 12mm - $250

VACA MUERTA, Chile: Stony-iron (Mesosiderite). Found 1861.

This is a small cut fragment that came in as part of a collection. It is nothing special but the small (17mm x 11mm) cut face does show more metal than most Vaca pieces I have had.

                8.0 gram cut fragment – 18mm x 13mm x 14mm - $24