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: …

unequilibrated chondrite

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.  …