Bear Creek, IIIAB

Bear Creek is a historic American iron that’s pretty hard to come by.  We try not to buy slices or part-slices in …

Bitburg, IAB

Bitburg is one of those old, strange 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 can be divided into two main groups: those that formed in the cores of large differentiated bodies, and those that …

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 last photo, center).  So, it’s a IIAB, hexahedrite.  …

NWA, Unclassified ‘Bullet’

This is a beautiful unclassified iron meteorite from Northwest Africa.  It is highly oriented, with a blunt, rounded nose, several overlapping lips, …

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 …

Yardymly, IAB

At 7:05 AM on November 24, 1959, lucky eyewitnesses in Azerbaijan were treated to a spectacular sight: a fireball brighter than the …