Bondoc, Mesosiderite-B4
The story of the Bondoc mesosiderite is a remarkable one. An easy-to-read version can be found here: Al Mitterling’s Nininger Moment #27 …
The story of the Bondoc mesosiderite is a remarkable one. An easy-to-read version can be found here: Al Mitterling’s Nininger Moment #27 …
There’s not much on Brenham in the Meteoritical Bulletin, but I was able to track down this paper describing the excavation of …
The Dalgaranga crater was first described in 1938 by E.S. Simpson. It had been discovered by a local rancher some fifteen years …
Estherville was one of the most spectacular bolides yet witnessed when it tore its way through Earth’s atmosphere above Iowa in 1879. …
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 …
Marjalahti is one of four witnessed pallasite falls as of 2014. The only work I was able to find that thoroughly described …
From O. C. Farrington’s 1915 Catalogue of the Meteorites of North America, to January 1, 1909. Despite its rather large total known …
This pallasite weighs 271 grams. We have no plans to cut or analyze it, so it will probably remain provisional.
Here’s a beautiful, fresh mesosiderite with huge olivine crystals. 52.2 grams.
Here’s another new mesosiderite from the Sahara. 20.5 grams.