Meteorite Hunting Videos
Here’s our first meteorite-hunting video, shot in October 2020 for UCLA’s 12th annual Exploring Your Universe. The event was virtual in 2020, …
What are CAIs?
CAIs. Calcium aluminum inclusions. What’s so special about them and why do we talk about them so much? Well, many people talk …
chondrite classification
From the chondrite information page, the petrographic classification scheme works kind of like this: completely altered by water into clay (no known …
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about us
We started collecting meteorites in the summer of 1998. Within a few years, we came to notice an event that kept recurring: …
chondrites
Chondrites are the most primitive group of meteorites. They have formation ages dating to at least 4.56 billion years before the present, …
irons
Iron meteorites, with few exceptions, represent fragments from the cores of large differentiated bodies (for an explanation of differentiation, see the “achondrites” …
achondrites
Achondrites are a very diverse goup of meteorites representing a wide range of developmental processes in the solar system. Some have crystallization …
stony-irons
Stony-iron meteorites are divided into two semi-related groups: mesosiderites and pallasites. Mesosiderites are a somewhat enigmatic group of generally metal-rich meteorites that have an origin that …
hunting for meteorites
Hunting for meteorites is fun, and just about anyone can do it. How do you start? Learn about rocks first. Just rocks. …