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LOT 2733
Odessa Fall Meteorite
1/2 in. (2.22 grams total, 14 mm).
A nickel-iron meteorite fragment, set in a cardboard sleeve. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Odessa, Texas, USA.
Acquired from Rod White, UK, 2001.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
The Odessa Meteor Crater, southwest of Odessa, Texas, is approximately 5 metres deep and 170 metres in diameter, with its rim rising less than a meter above the surrounding area, with the original crater that formed approximately 20,000 years ago was determined to be much larger.
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