Named for early settler Amos Leedey, this western Oklahoma town was host to a meteorite shower on November 25, 1943. The two most important meteorite hunters at the time were Oscar Monnig and Harvey Nininger. Both converged on Leedey in the meteorite shower’s aftermath. They found or obtained nearly the entire fall of two dozen meteorites and agreed they would split everything found in half — which included the 20.4 kg main mass. One half of this mass is now displayed in the Monnig Gallery at Texas Christian University and the other, along with most of Nininger’s collection, was acquired by Arizona State. The specimen now offered is from the Monnig Collection and is marked as specimen “M39.7” with a further and more prominent identifier “489.20”. Approximately 95% of this meteorite is covered in fusion crust. An ablative “rollover lip” is seen at the edge of what evokes a rooftop upon a home. The largely flat underside of the meteorite is accented with secondary crust in this superb example of a notable American meteorite fall.

70 x 98 x 63mm (2.75 x 3.75 x 2.5 in.) and 861.7 grams (2 lbs)

Provenance: Monnig Collection of Meteorites, Fort Worth, Texas

Estimate: $15,000 – 20,000 * Reserve: $12,500