Aldama (a), IIIAB
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Aldama (a). This iron’s medium-octahedral structure has been partly recrystallized by natural or artificial heating, followed by rapid …
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Aldama (a). This iron’s medium-octahedral structure has been partly recrystallized by natural or artificial heating, followed by rapid …
Bear Creek is a historic American iron that’s pretty hard to come by. We try not to buy slices or part-slices in …
Here are some photos from a 2003 expedition to Arispe. Unfortunately, we didn’t find any meteorites, but it was a memorable trip …
The Boxhole meteorite crater is ~170 meters in diameter, and is a very well-preserved impact, supposedly dating to only around 5,500 years …
Bur-Abor is a special one for us. Some ten or fifteen years ago, we emailed Eric Twelker about a few Bur-Abor specimens …
The recovery of Burns is described in its Meteoritical Bulletin write-up: The recovery of the meteorite was described in much greater detail …
I don’t have much to add to the Bulletin description of this iron. As of 2016, Camp Wood is the largest iron …
Meteor Crater is one of the most famous impact craters on Earth. Between 25,000 and 50,000 years ago, an 80 – 120 …
Cape York is one of the largest known meteorites, with a very colorful history. The first reports in literature emerged in the …
There’s not much online about this Texan find; the bulletin contains scant information, and I couldn’t find any papers describing the discovery. …
The El Burro meteorite is a historic find from a very remote area of Coahuila, Mexico. The area is still almost completely …
This mostly oxidized iron meteorite was found in a Cenozoic bauxite deposit during mining at the Nabalco Bauxite Mine in 1966. It …
This “extremely heavy rock” was found by Francisco Arce Arce in 1971. It was discovered in Baja California along a burro trail …
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Taza. Long story short, it’s an ungrouped iron with a germanium content an order of magnitude or so …
I’ve been told that Tafrawet was a stunning 32 kilogram iron. The 3 kilogram end-cut pictured below certainly suggests as much. Thick …
Tata, otherwise known as NWA 1430, consisted of a single 113 kilogram iron meteorite that was, honestly, pretty ugly. It had been …
This hexahedrite isn’t too unusual, but it is pretty. And it’s fairly fresh; it has a partial heat-altered zone, contrary to the …
NWA 3204 is a pretty plessitic octahedrite with a fun shape; we initially thought that it might be a man-made artifact. Its …
This iron turned out to be compositionally unusual, with a very high iridium content. The Meteoritical Bulletin says a bit more:
This 176 gram disk-shaped iron is chemically a little odd and is structurally unique. It has a great microscopic pattern, but there’s …
This iron is a highly shocked IIIAB — so shocked that its Thomson structure is almost completely erased. But, while preparing the …
This 203 gram iron meteorite is one of the freshest and most beautiful to come out of Northwest Africa. It is unclassified …
This is an odd one, with 3-dimensional graphite sprays. The Meteoritical Bulletin writeup contains a plethora of information: Paired irons include NWA …
This is a pretty one to escape the saw; it’s fairly fresh, oriented, and has a fine pattern. It has a well-defined …
This ~1 kilogram heat shield has some unusual features.
This 267.5 gram heat-shield came from Aras Jonikas. When I first saw photos, it looked so smooth and round that I thought …
64,000 years ago, a massive piece of nickel-iron entered the atmosphere over what is now Northwest Texas. It was a bad day …
I don’t have much to add to the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up for this unusual iron. Here’s an image of the 21 kilogram …
This rare Portuguese iron was discovered in 1883, and was thoroughly distributed, with much of the material being lost. In the Handbook …
The single largest meteorite fall in modern history occurred on February 12th, 1947, at ~10:38 am local time. In Primorsky Krai, a …
Tamarugal was discovered in Chile in 1903. It is one of a handful of ‘ancient’ meteorites, with a terrestrial age of approximately …
The Tishomingo meteorite is a Ni-rich ataxite that displays a unique, almost microscopic structure. When found, it consisted of a massive 260 …
A comprehensive description of the history and discovery of Toluca can be found in Farrington’s 1915 Catalog of North American Meteorites. It …
Trenton is a historic American iron first discovered in the 1850s in Wisconsin. Masses of Trenton were initially known simply as the …
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Uasara. I have only a few things to add to the above description; Sierra Gorda and Negrillos are …
This iron is a witnessed fall from 1927, and it’s an odd meteorite chock full of interesting inclusions. This particular specimen exhibits …
These extremely rare volumes contain a thorough account of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite fall and subsequent expeditions to the fall location. Published in …