Bitburg, IAB
Bitburg was one of those strange, sad stories you read about in meteorite books. A 1.5 ton iron was found in the …
Buffalo Gap, IAB-ungrouped
We wrote the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up for this iron; I can’t think of anything else to add. In short, it’s similar to …
irons
Iron meteorites, with few exceptions, represent fragments from the cores of large differentiated bodies (for an explanation of differentiation, see the “achondrites” …
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 …
Northwest Africa 176, Ungrouped
Northwest Africa 176 is an unusual ungrouped iron meteorite that appears to be more closely related to carbonaceous chondrites than to most …
NWA, Medium Octahedrite I
This 1,026 gram iron meteorite came from Said Haddany at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show in 2010. It appears to be …
NWA, Medium Octahedrite II
This iron appears to be a medium octahedrite, from the pattern visible through stress fractures in the fusion crust. It came from …
NWA, Hexahedrite
This is an oriented heat-shield with a few rhabdites visible on its surface (see edge photo, center). So, it’s a hexahedrite. As …
NWA, Unclassified ‘Bullet’
This is a beautiful unclassified iron from Northwest Africa. It is highly oriented, with a blunt, rounded nose, several overlapping lips, and …
Tulia (iron), Unclassified
Here’s an odd one! This meteorite is listed in the bulletin as an unclassified iron, and it’s easy to see why: it’s …