NWA, Oriented Iron
This 267.5 gram heat-shield came from Aras Jonikas. When I first saw photos, it looked so smooth and round that I thought …
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 …
The single largest meteorite fall in modern history occurred on February 12th, 1947, at ~10:38 am local time. In Primorsky Krai, a …
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 …
This iron is a witnessed fall from 1927, and it’s an odd meteorite chock full of interesting inclusions. This particular specimen exhibits …