Registry:	AB 411
Mineral Name    :	Sikhote-Alin
Source:	Eastern Russial
Mineral Size:	1383.80g
Sale Price:	$1,375.00
Description:

A fireball reported to be brighter than the sun flew over eastern Siberia on February 12, 1947. The explosition and the impact were heard as far as 200 miles from the site of impact on a small range of mountains north of Vladivostok.
One of the largest meteorites known had just made a spectacular entry.
Sikhote-Alin: at least 50 tons of iron-nickel, in thousands of fragments.
And one of the collectors' favorites because of the wide variety of size, shape of the fragments. 

Here is a relatively large fragment, showing well the force of the explosition stretching and ripping metal on one side, and broken along the crystallisation pattern on all 3 other faces. Quite unusual.
About 95mm x 70mm x 65mm. 1383.80 grams.
Other specimens of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite are available,  please check in the  Catalog.