Aba Panu, L3.6-6
In the afternoon of April 19, 2018, a flash of light and deafening roar startled the residents of Southwestern Nigeria. There were …
Aiquile, H5
On November 20, 2016, a bright daytime fireball split the sky above Aiquile, Bolivia. A local named Hugo Cardona quickly snagged a …
Allegan, H5
Allegan’s a historic American fall from 1899. It’s a fairly typical H-chondrite, with moderate porosity and well-defined chondrules. From Merrill and Stokes’ …
Allende, CV3.2
Allende is one of the largest recovered falls of the 20th century, and also one of the most scientifically important and researched. …
Ash Creek, L6
For the story behind the stones, click here.
Bir Lehlou, H-chondrite
This 205 kilogram (451 pound) stone was found ~25 kilometers North of Bir Lehlou, in Western Sahara. It is the ~eighth largest …
Breja, LL6
Breja is an odd fall that somehow escaped publication despite having a known find location, known fall date, and a fairly large …
Bruderheim, L6
Bruderheim’s arrival to Earth was accompanied by spectacular effects. A complete account of the fall and its recovery can be seen here: …
Bunker Hill, L6
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Bunker Hill. Robert Haag said that the stone had been found by a scrap collector among the ruins …
Carancas, H4-5
The Carancas meteorite violently exploded when it made landfall just south of Lake Titicaca on September 15, 2007. It is one of …
Chico Hills, H5
I don’t have much information on this rare find beyond the original Meteoritical Bulletin No. 37. Here’s a 51 gram fusion-crusted quarter-cut …
Coolidge, CL4
Coolidge is an unusual carbonaceous chondrite. It was initially classified as a CV3.8, and was later reclassified by different researchers as…a type-3.8 …
Correo, H4
This strewn field from New Mexico was discovered in the late 1970s. The total known weight is just a few kilograms, and …
Dar al Gani 978, C3-ungrouped
This meteorite has several pairings with classifications including: CV3, CK3, and C3-ungrouped. DaG 978 is officially published as a C3-ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite. …
Dar el Kahal, H5
This stone was one of the larger attractions at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show of 2014. Hundreds of kilograms were present, …
Dhofar 325, CO3.5
The average chondrule diameter of this stone is 100 – 200 µm: it isn’t an L-chondrite. From the Meteoritical Bulletin: Given the …
Dimmitt, H3.5-3.7
Dimmitt is one of the largest meteorites known from North America; hundreds of kilograms of fragments and individuals have been recovered from …
Forest City, H5
Forest City was a seminal American fall, studied by some of America’s earliest dedicated meteoriticists. A detail of note regarding this fall: …
Forestburg (b), L5
Here’s a chunk of a fairly uncommon American meteorite, which has otherwise been ~diced and distributed. From the Meteoritical Bulletin: 192.2 grams
Forrest 002, L6
Forrest (b), later named Forrest 002, was found in October of 1980. I wasn’t able to track down information beyond the scant …
Gao, H5
On March 5th, 1960, stones fell amongst the rooftops of several villages near Burkina Faso’s border with Ghana. Sonic effects were heard …
Gashua, L6
Gashua was witnessed to fall in Nigeria in April, 1984. I don’t have much to add to the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up. At …
Hamburg, H4
Hamburg was a fairly small fall that happened in the middle of Winter in Michigan — January 16th, 2018. After hearing about …
Indian Butte, H5
From the Meteoritical Bulletin: We spent a few days in the area in the summer of 2013, but didn’t have access to …
Ivuna, CI1
Type-1 chondrites are fairly rare, partly because they are so fragile. Atmospheric entry often results in very high mass loss for these …
Izarzar, H5
After hearing reports of a fireball in Morocco in late October of 2012, I kept an eye out for stones, but saw …
Kainsaz, CO3.2
Not much contemporary information was published about this historic Russian fall. From Meteor News – News from the Soviet Union Concerning Meteoric …
Karoonda, CK4
Karoonda is the type specimen of the CK-meteorite class, meaning that it is the first CK chondrite to be known or recognized. …
Kennard, H5
This stone was obtained by Ralph Velich in 1961, and he documented everything fastidiously from then onwards. He described how he obtained …
Kerman, R3
Kerman was purchased in 2009 from a German mineral dealer. The small cut stone came from an old mineral collection with a …
Knyahinya, L/LL5
Knyahinya is a historic fall from Hungary. It was one of the largest meteorite falls to have been observed at the time …
Košice, H5
Košice was a relatively large fall in Slovakia in 2010. Here’s the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up: A video of the fireball, recorded from …
Kota-Kota, EH3
Kota-Kota is an unusual and rare meteorite; there are precious few EH3’s known, and only four are not from Antarctica or a …
Kunashak, L6
Kunashak fell as a massive shower of stones: at least 20 fell, with a total weight of over 200 kilograms! The largest …
La Colina, H5
La Colina fell at 11:30 pm local time on March 19, 1924, in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. Following a bright …
La Luz, H4
I don’t have much more information on this one than is in the Meteoritical Bulletin: 3,518 gram main mass. Photos will be …
Ladder Creek, L6
35 kilograms of fragments were recovered from a field by a farmer named Edgar Linn in 1937. Nininger recovered them: The Ladder …
Las Vegas, Ordinary Chondrite
This small, complete stone was found in an empty lot along the Las Vegas strip by a metal detectorist. The finder mailed …
Leedey, L6
The Leedey meteorite fell in Oklahoma on November 35, 1943. Following a large fireball, 24 stones were recovered, with a total known …
Lucerne Valley, CK4
From the Meteoritical Bulletin: This 5.6 gram fragment from the find is the largest one we’ve found. Many thanks to Robert Matson …
MacKay Glacier, Ordinary Chondrite
This specimen was one of three meteorites found on MacKay Glacier (Victoria Land, Antarctica) by the crew of an environmental organization in …
New Mexico, H-chondrite
The finder of this stone posted it on eBay as a meteorite in early 2011, with a single blurry photo and no …
Matamoros, H6
This 30.4 kilogram stone came from just South of the border, near the town of Matamoros, Mexico. The owner posted some photos …
Mifflin, L5
Mifflin was a fairly small American fall with only a few dozen stones recovered, and a total known weight of 3-4 kilograms, …
Murray, CM2
Murray is a fairly uncommon American carbonaceous chondrite. It arrived as a small shower of stones at around 1:35 AM on September …
Monze, L6
This fall took place in Zambia on October 5, 1950, at ~4:20 am local time. Sonic effects were heard over an area …
Moorabie, Anomalous L3.8
This enigmatic meteorite has been plaguing researchers for years. Moorabie and a number of other H/L3-4 anomalous chondrites exhibit characteristics of both …
Ness County, L6
Ness County is a fairly old, but well-distributed meteorite, originally discovered in 1897. Many institutions possess specimens, but few have been traded …
New Concord, L6
There’s not much in the Meteoritical Bulletin on New Concord. I was able to track down a PDF of Farrington’s 1915 book, …
NWA 978, R3.8
There’s not much in the Meteoritical Bulletin other than the basic information: R3.8, S3, W2, total known weight: 722 grams. Of note: …
NWA 2196, carbonaceous chondrite
This is a beautiful meteorite we obtained from Dean Bessey back in 2002. Dean sold a cut stone to us (100.38 grams …
NWA 6494, H/L3
This cute stone came from Rob Elliott some years ago. From his photos, it was easy to tell that the stone was …
NWA 6500, LL3.8
290.5 gram windowed stone, main mass.
NWA 6501, L3
Here’s a cool stone. It has huge chondrules and practically no matrix. Some recent papers have described similar meteorites as “chondrule conglomerates.” …
NWA 6504, L3.6
I don’t have much to add to the write-up; this stone was purchased already-cut from a dealer. When it is polished, many …
NWA 6505, CK4
This stone was classified as a CK4, S2, Wi 4 (Wi stands for the new weathering index determined for CK chondrites by …
NWA 6506, CV3
Here’s a pretty one — nice chondrules. The end pictured was used for the type specimen. Link to Meteoritical Bulletin:
NWA 6507, CR2
While perusing eBay one day, an armored chondrule poking through the fusion crust of an unclassified stone caught my eye. The 5.1 …
NWA 6508, EL3
NWA 6508 was purchased as an unclassified NWA meteorite on eBay in September of 2009. The seller had cut it in half, …
NWA 6509, LL3.6
Here’s a pretty stone from Northwest Africa.
NWA 7406, EL3
EL3’s are extraordinarily rare. This stone is one of the four approved non-Antarctic EL3’s, as of 2020. Here’s the main mass of …
NWA 7411, CV3
This brick of a meteorite is a specimen that we bring to every outreach event. Chondrules, big CAIs, it’s perfect. And it’s …
NWA 7634, carbonaceous chondrite
This ~850 gram carbonaceous chondrite is something of an enigma. The original classification was “CO3,” with a description that described it as …
NWA 7669, LL3
This oriented stone has nice flow lines and what appears to be a huge type B CAI in the cut face, which …
NWA 7715, H6
Initial work suggested this stone was an H7. It was later shown to be an H6. The main mass weighs a little …
NWA 7789, LL3.1-LL6
This stunning 8.2 kilogram polymict breccia was recovered as a broken individual. We don’t usually cut stones much, but this stone began …
NWA 7800, R-chondrite
This 45 gram stone is one of the freshest rumuruti chondrites found. Glimmering sulfides can be seen on all surfaces. Mottled matrix …
NWA 7802, CM2
This carbonaceous chondrite came from a Moroccan meteorite dealer several years ago. We finally got around to requesting a provisional number in …
NWA 7805, CK4
This 45 gram oriented CK chondrite was purchased in 2011 from a Moroccan meteorite dealer.
NWA 7806, CO3
This complete stone has a wonderful shape and is quite fresh. More data when it comes…
NWA 7807, type-3 chondrite
This is a very cool meteorite originally sold to us as a pairing with NWA 801, a CR2. Two of the stones …
Northwest Africa 7892, CO3.0
This stone is one of the most pristine chondrites known. All carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites have experienced some thermal and aqueous alteration. …
NWA 8047, CM1
We had just missed out on another specimen from this find; I messaged the seller as soon as I saw his photo …
NWA 10085, K4
After a first round of analyses on the microprobe at UCLA, this stone left us with more questions than answers. It is …
NWA 10088, LL3
This stone’s total known weight is 209.6 grams and it has been classified as an LL3 S1 W4. This is the ~180 …
Northwest Africa, carbonaceous chondrite
This cute 12 gram stone is an unclassified carbonaceous chondrite that resembles CM’s most closely. However, it is very solid and moderately …
NWA xxxx, LL3.00
This meteorite is a fun one; I’m adding it because we’ve been dragging our feet about cutting it, and it’s pretty enough …
NWA, Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrite
This stone is currently being analyzed. It’s definitely a fresh unequilibrated chondrite of some sort. Guesses have ranged from CR2 to LL3; …
NWA, Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrite II
Northwest Africa has afforded collectors a rare opportunity to own specimens they otherwise would never be able to obtain. A fresh, complete, …
Northwest Africa, CV3
This beautiful stone with weathered fluting and flow lines was purchased in Erfoud from Mohamed Benzaki. 473.53 + 242.43 gram fitting fragments.
Northwest Africa, CO3
This fresh carbonaceous chondrite was purchased at Tucson, 2014. 493.9 grams
Northwest Africa, CO3 II
This fresh carbonaceous chondrite was purchased at Tucson, 2014. 349.0 grams.
Northwest Africa, L3
This ~10.5 kilogram monolith is an L3-5 breccia/impact melt. The stone grades from ~moderately shocked to completely shock-melted (left end, first image), …
NWA, ordinary chondrite I
This ordinary chondrite has one of the nicer shapes I’ve seen; it’s concave, and flares to a point. It also has an …
NWA, ordinary chondrite II
This stone was one of the nicer ones we saw on our 2011 trip to Morocco. It’s flight-marked with flow-lines and lipping; …
NWA, ordinary chondrite III
At the 2019 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, Moussa Minerals seemed to be everywhere: they had multiple tents set up at Kino Park, …
Novato, L6
For the story behind the stones, click here.
Octave Mine, H5
This stone was found on Christmas day in 2004, by a metal-detectorist in Arizona. It is classified as an H5 S1 W3. …
Olton, H3.5
When two stones were found near Olton, Texas in 1948, they were initially thought to be paired with each other — and …
Oum Dreyga (Amgala), H3-5
Amgala was a small fall that occurred in a remote part of Western Sahara; the meteorite itself is a pretty breccia of …
Palca de Aparzo, L5
Oscar Turone visited the location and documented this 1988 fall — per the Meteoritical Bulletin: This 1995 Meteoryt! Magazine article describes the …
Potter, L6
This rock isn’t particularly noteworthy; Potter is a common type, has a large total known weight, and it is well-distributed. It is …
Putinga, L6
The Meteoritical Bulletin has scant information on the fall, but I was able to track down the following paper: Studies of Brazilian …
Park Forest, L6
At approximately 11:50 PM local time on March 26, 2003, the Chicago suburb of Park Forest was pelted with rocks from space. …
Patrimonio, L6
Patrimonio fell on August 6, 1950, in Brazil. Per Grady’s Catalogue of Meteorites, approximately 20 stones were recovered, the largest of which …
Pervomaisky, L6
Pervomaisky fell on 26 December, 1933, in the USSR. A total of 97 stones weighing a total of approximately 49 kg were …
Plainview, H5
Plainview is one of the larger American meteorites ever found, by weight. At least a tonne of individuals and fragments have been …
Quitovac, L5
The story of Quitovac is very similar to those of many other chondrites from the Southwest. Metal-detecting prospectors near the gold mines …
Reid xxx, unclassified
This is an interesting stone. A meteorite dealer had been offering it for a few years, and it caught my eye when …
Richardton, H5
Richardton fell in North Dakota at 21:48 on 19 June, 1918. The bolide was seen up to 400 miles away, and sonic …
Roosevelt County 082, H4
Roosevelt County, New Mexico, is home to many deflation surfaces like this one, near Arch Lake: Many meteorite hunters have successfully hunted …
St. Mark’s, EH5
This is another historic and fairly rare African meteorite from the collection of Gilbert Gauthier. Here is an excerpt from A Cape …
Santa Vitoria do Palmar, L3
This Brazilian find was supposedly related to a fireball seen in the region only six years earlier, but the extensive chemical and …
Sidi Ali Ou Azza, L4
A bright bolide was seen over Eastern Morocco on July 28, 2015. Hunters set out and managed to find the first fresh …
Sołtmany, L6
On April 30, 2011, just past 6am local time, a ~1 kilogram meteorite fell through the roof and eaves of a building …
Stecker, ordinary chondrite
This small stone came from a long-time meteorite dealer. He purchased it along with a lot of Caddo County, but this piece …
Sulagiri, LL6
Sulagiri is the largest witnessed fall to occur on the Indian subcontinent. Over 150 kilograms of stones were recovered following a large …
Tarda, C2-ungr
Tarda is a rare ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite. Aqueously altered meteorites are a popular research topic right now, and a great deal of …
Tenham, L6
Tenham was a spectacular meteorite fall that occurred in a remote and sparsely populated area of Queensland in 1879. From the Queensland …
Thuathe, H4/5
The Meteoritical Bulletin write-up contains a fairly detailed account of the fall: Here are a few papers describing the fall: The Thuathe …
Tulia (a), H3-4
From Meteoritics Vol. 17, pp 229-230. Many different finds have been identified in the area, but Tulia (a) is an unusual unequilibrated …
Vernon County, H6
This meteorite has a wonderful history. A bright fireball was observed on the morning of March 25, 1865. The fall was witnessed …
Vigarano, CV3
Meteorite types are usually named after the first specimen of a given type found. For example, in 1868, an interesting new meteorite …
Vinales, L6
On February 1, 2019, eyewitnesses in Western Cuba saw a bright daytime fireball, followed by a spectacular persistent smoke train and deafening …
Wellman (c), H4
There’s precious little about this meteorite available online: a 1974 paper by Derek W. Sears states that the meteorite had a terrestrial …
Weston, H4
Weston was the first witnessed, recovered, American fall. There are some great anecdotes from the eyewitnesses and other important persons of the …