Cape York, IIIAB
Cape York is one of the largest known meteorites, with a very colorful history. The first reports in literature emerged in the …
Chinga, Ungrouped
From Grady’s Catalogue of Meteorites (2000): Buchwald’s Handbook of Iron Meteorites contains a description of the find: Roy A. Gallant further described …
Deport, IAB-sLL
There’s not much online about this Texan find; the bulletin contains scant information, and I couldn’t find any papers describing the discovery. …
El Burro, IIAB
The El Burro meteorite is a historic find from a very remote area of Coahuila, Mexico. The area is still almost completely …
Gibeon, IVA
~45 kilograms, individual with hole. ‘The Man in the Moon.’ ~51 kilogram oriented Gibeon with spotty fusion crust and flow-lines. Photos taken …
Gove, Relict Iron
This mostly oxidized iron meteorite was found in a Cenozoic bauxite deposit during mining at the Nabalco Bauxite Mine in 1966. It …
Henbury, IIIAB
The meteorite craters at Henbury, Central Australia, by Arthur Richard Alderman, 1932. 27 grams, Ward’s Natural Science Establishment label. ~3 kilograms of …
Kingston, Ungrouped
Kingston is a unique iron meteorite, without any close chemical relatives. It appears to be a magmatic iron, and may be the …
Mesa La Caguama, IAB-MG
This “extremely heavy rock” was found by Francisco Arce Arce in 1971. It was discovered in Baja California along a burro trail …
Morasko, IAB-MG
There is far more to say about Morasko than I can include here. In brief, the fall occurred between 5,000 and 5,500 …