Aldama (a), IIIAB
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Aldama (a). The iron’s medium-octahedral structure has been partly recrystallized by natural or artificial reheating, followed by rapid …
Astoria, IIIAB
This IIIAB from South Dakota isn’t quite official yet. The total known weight was ~24 kilograms. The ~2 kilogram end-cut that was taken …
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 …
Arispe, Mexico
Here are some photos from a 2003 expedition to Arispe. Unfortunately, we didn’t find any meteorites, but it was a memorable trip …
Boxhole, IIIAB
The Boxhole meteorite crater is ~170 meters in diameter, and is a very well-preserved impact, supposedly dating to only around 5,500 years …
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 …
Bur-Abor, IIIAB
Bur-Abor is a special one for us. Some ten or fifteen years ago, we contacted Eric Twelker regarding the Bur-Abor specimens on …
Burns, IIIAB
The recovery of Burns is described fairly succinctly here, in the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up: The recovery of the meteorite was described in …
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 …
irons
Iron meteorites, with few exceptions, represent fragments from the cores of large differentiated bodies (for an explanation of differentiation, see the “achondrites” …