LOST CITY - SELDOMLY OFFERED, ONE OF THE MOST COVETED AMERICAN METEORITES. ...

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LOST CITY - SELDOMLY OFFERED, ONE OF THE MOST COVETED AMERICAN METEORITES
H5, Olivine-bronzite chondrite
Cherokee County, Oklahoma
On January 3, 1970 at 8:14 pm, Lost City's descent to Earth was recorded by the Prairie Photographic Network, a constellation of sixteen cameras set up by the American and Canadian governments (and no longer in operation). The multiple camera imagery allowed the trajectory of the meteorite to be triangulated and a search area delimited. Just six days following the fall, the first of 4 fragments was recovered. Lost City is one of just a handful of meteorites to have been located by following their paths on film, and the only example in the United States. What's more, its precise orbit before impacting Earth - an ellipse stretching between Jupiter and Venus - was also calculated from the photographs, making it one of the few non-planetary meteorites with a determined point of origin. This is a partial slice, with two edges of fusion crust and a polished face revealing a medium-gray matrix studded with metallic clasts. Prized by collectors and available only once in a blue moon - The Smithsonian retains the main mass - Lost City is one of the most fabled and desired American meteorites. 61 x 53 x 2 mm (2.5 x 2 x 0.1 inches) and 12.60 grams.



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