Importante météorite américaine de Canyon Diablo, spécimen complet de plus de 42 kg

Historical American Meteorite of Over 42 Kilograms-- Complete Sculptural Individual
Canyon Diablo
Iron-coarse octahedrite
Meteor Crater, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
A superb Canyon Diablo specimen, this complete example is replete with the regmaglypts for which the most desirable Canyon Diablo specimens are prized. The fascinating holes and dips were produced during its molten state as it blazed through Earth's atmosphere.

Viewed by many collectors as the quintessential American meteorite, Canyon Diablo (meaning Devil's Canyon) is the famous meteorite which produced the gigantic crater located about forty miles east of Flagstaff, Arizona. Judging by the size of the crater - about three quarters of a mile wide and 600 feet deep, with a rim rising 200 feet above the plain - the weight of Canyon Diablo has been estimated at a magnificent 63,000 tons. It is no wonder, then, that entrepreneur Daniel Barringer surmised the presence of valuable metal in the area and began, in 1903, his doomed attempts to mine iron from the presumed main mass of the meteorite which he supposed to be buried beneath the crater. Barringer spent $600,000 (an immense investment in that era) searching for iron without success. After Barringer's death in 1929, astronomer and ballistics expert F.R. Moulton concluded that most of the mass of the meteorite had vaporized on impact. The Barringer family still owns the crater today and it is operated as a private tourist attraction by Meteor Crater Enterprise. With painted inventory number B45165. Weighing approximately 42.18 kilograms (93 lbs) and measuring 33 x 25.4 x 15.2in (2)
Footnotes:
Accompanied by a photocopy of a letter from Edward J. Olsen, Curator of the meteorite collection at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, dated January 4, 1980.
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