The American Southwest
Here is an assortment of photos of meteorites found, mostly on dry lake beds, from California, Nevada, and Arizona. Some cold finds …
Carancas, H4-5
The Carancas meteorite violently exploded when it made landfall just south of Lake Titicaca on September 15, 2007. It is one of …
Chico Hills, H5
I don’t have much information on this rare find beyond the original Meteoritical Bulletin No. 37. Here’s a 51 gram fusion-crusted quarter-cut …
Correo, H4
This strewn field from New Mexico was discovered in the late 1970s. The total known weight is just a few kilograms, and …
Dar al Gani 978, C3-ungrouped
This meteorite has several pairings, with classifications including: CV3, CK3, and C3-ungrouped. DaG 978 is officially published as a C3-ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite. …
Camp Wood, Texas
Here are some photos from our trip to pick up Camp Wood, a 326 lb. iron meteorite from a town of the …
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 can be divided into two main groups: those that formed in the cores of large differentiated bodies, and those that …
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 …