Aiquile, H5
On November 20, 2016, a bright daytime fireball split the sky above Aiquile, Bolivia. A local named Hugo Cardona quickly snagged a …
Bir Lehlou, H-chondrite
This 205 kilogram (451 pound) stone was found ~25 kilometers North of Bir Lehlou, in Western Sahara. It is the ~eighth largest …
Breja, LL6
Breja is an odd fall that somehow escaped publication despite having a known find location, known fall date, and a fairly large …
Bunker Hill, L6
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Bunker Hill. Robert Haag said that the stone had been found by a scrap collector among the ruins …
Morasko, IAB-MG
There is far more to say about Morasko than I can include here. In brief, the fall occurred between 5,000 and 5,500 …
Kainsaz, CO3.2
Not much contemporary information was published about this historic Russian fall. From Meteor News – News from the Soviet Union Concerning Meteoric …
NWA 7787, Iron
This 203 gram iron meteorite is one of the freshest and most beautiful to come out of Northwest Africa. It is unclassified …
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 …
NWA, Unclassified ‘Bullet’
This is a beautiful unclassified iron from Northwest Africa. It is highly oriented, with a blunt, rounded nose, several overlapping lips, and …
Millbillillie, eucrite
Millbillillie is an odd one; it was apparently witnessed to fall in October 1960, but no one bothered to track down the …
NWA, ureilite
This beautiful, slightly fluted heat shield is probably a ureilite. 505 grams. Thanks to Mohammed Ismaily.
Uasara, IIAB
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Uasara. I have only a few things to add to the above description; Sierra Gorda and Negrillos are …
NWA, ordinary chondrite I
This ordinary chondrite has one of the nicer shapes I’ve seen; it’s concave, and flares to a point. It also has an …
NWA, ordinary chondrite II
This stone was one of the nicer ones we saw on our 2011 trip to Morocco. It’s flight-marked with flow-lines and lipping; …
NWA, ordinary chondrite III
At the 2019 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, Moussa Minerals seemed to be everywhere: they had multiple tents set up at Kino Park, …