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Thiel Mountains
Location: Thiel Mountains
Antarctica
Type: Pallasite
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Thiel Mountains
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Weight: 11.61 grams
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Price: $4000.00
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From my Personal Collection
Thiel Mountains
History
Name: Thiel Mountains
Location: Antarctica
Type: Pallasite
Geologists from the US Geological Survey found two fragments lying about 200 m apart on
the ice at the NE base of Mt. Wrather, in the Thiel Mountains of Antarctica (now a dense collection area
abbreviated TIL). This was only the third meteorite ever found in Antarctica. The larger fragment had a
weight of 18 kg and the smaller one 10.6 kg. The fusion crust had been completely stripped and the
surface smoothed and polished due to sandblasting by windblown rock and ice particles.
This meteorite was published in the Meteoritical Society Bulletin No. 24
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