Mount Dooling, IC
The first mass of Mount Dooling was recovered in 1909; it weighed 31.3 kilograms. I wasn’t able to track down Simpson’s 1911 …
The first mass of Mount Dooling was recovered in 1909; it weighed 31.3 kilograms. I wasn’t able to track down Simpson’s 1911 …
Northwest Africa 176 is an unusual ungrouped ~iron meteorite that appears to be more closely related to carbonaceous chondrites than to most …
Ziz, otherwise known as Northwest Africa 854, is a beautifully fresh iron meteorite from Algeria. It is chemically similar to Canyon Diablo, …
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Taza. Long story short, it’s an ungrouped iron with a germanium content an order of magnitude or so …
I’ve been told that Tafrawet was a stunning 32 kilogram iron. The 3 kilogram end-cut pictured below certainly suggests as much. Thick …
Tata, otherwise known as NWA 1430, consisted of a single 113 kilogram iron meteorite that was, honestly, pretty ugly. It had been …
This hexahedrite isn’t too unusual, but it is pretty. And it’s fairly fresh; it has a partial heat-altered zone, contrary to the …
NWA 3204 is a pretty plessitic octahedrite with a fun shape; we initially thought that it might be a man-made artifact. Its …
This iron turned out to be compositionally unusual, with a very high iridium content. The Meteoritical Bulletin says a bit more:
This 176 gram disk-shaped iron is chemically a little odd and is structurally unique. It has a great microscopic pattern, but there’s …