Details

LOT 2857

Carancas H4-5 Chondrite Meteorite with Fusion Crust

FELL 15 SEPTEMBER 2007 IN PERU

5/8 in. (2.72 grams, 15 mm).

An irregular, uncut specimen. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Carancas, Chucuito, Puno, Peru.
Ex Aerolite Meteorites.
From the private collection of a Leicestershire, UK, gentleman.

Accompanied by an Aerolite Meteorites dealer card, photograph of the impact crater, and set in a Swiss membrane box.

Footnotes

In the afternoon of September 15 2007, at 4.45pm UTC, the small town of Carancas in Provincia Chucuito, Peru, was shaken by an enormous detonation. Eye witnesses described a smoke trail that had descended from the sky and had exploded on contact with the ground, breaking windows and the debris causing damage on the buildings. A mushroom-shaped explosion cloud was seen rising from the impact site and was visible for several minutes above the 13.8 meter crater.