Aba Panu, L3.6-6
In the afternoon of April 19, 2018, a flash of light and deafening roar startled the residents of Southwestern Nigeria. There were …
Dimmitt, H3.5-3.7
Dimmitt is one of the largest meteorites known from North America; hundreds of kilograms of fragments and individuals have been recovered from …
Moorabie, Anomalous L3.8
This enigmatic meteorite has been plaguing researchers for years. Moorabie and a number of other H/L3-4 anomalous chondrites exhibit characteristics of both …
NWA 6494, H/L3
This cute stone came from Rob Elliott some years ago. From his photos, it was easy to tell that the stone was …
NWA 6500, LL3.8
290.5 gram windowed stone, main mass.
NWA 6504, L3.6
I don’t have much to add to the write-up; this stone was purchased already-cut from a dealer. When it is polished, many …
NWA 6508, EL3
NWA 6508 was purchased as an unclassified NWA meteorite on eBay in September of 2009. The seller had cut it in half, …
NWA 6509, LL3.6
Here’s a pretty stone from Northwest Africa.
NWA 7669, LL3
This oriented stone has nice flow lines and what appears to be a huge type B CAI in the cut face, which …
NWA 7789, LL3.1-LL6
This stunning 8.2 kilogram polymict breccia was recovered as a broken individual. We don’t usually cut stones much, but this stone began …
NWA 7807, type-3 chondrite
This is a very cool meteorite originally sold to us as a pairing with NWA 801, a CR2. Two of the stones …
Northwest Africa 7892, CO3.0
This stone is one of the most pristine chondrites known. All carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites have experienced some thermal and aqueous alteration. …
NWA 10088, LL3
This stone’s total known weight is 209.6 grams and it has been classified as an LL3 S1 W4. This is the ~180 …
NWA xxxx, LL3.00
This meteorite is a fun one; I’m adding it because we’ve been dragging our feet about cutting it, and it’s pretty enough …
NWA, Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrite
This stone is currently being analyzed. It’s definitely a fresh unequilibrated chondrite of some sort. Guesses have ranged from CR2 to LL3; …
NWA, Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrite II
Northwest Africa has afforded collectors a rare opportunity to own specimens they otherwise would never be able to obtain. A fresh, complete, …
Olton, H3.5
When two stones were found near Olton, Texas in 1948, they were initially thought to be paired with each other — and …
Santa Vitoria do Palmar, L3
This Brazilian find was supposedly related to a fireball seen in the region only six years earlier, but the extensive chemical and …
Tulia (a), H3-4
From Meteoritics Vol. 17, pp 229-230. Many different finds have been identified in the area, but Tulia (a) is an unusual unequilibrated …