Almahata Sitta, polymict breccia
2008 TC3 was a roughly 80 tonne, ~4.1 meter diameter asteroid discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on October 6, 2008: …
Bilanga, diogenite
The Bilanga diogenite fell on October 27, 1999 into and between the villages of Bilanga-Yanga and Gomposago, in Burkina-Faso. The fall was …
Allegan, H5
Allegan’s a historic American fall from 1899. It’s a fairly typical H-chondrite, with moderate porosity and well-defined chondrules. From Merrill and Stokes’ …
Ash Creek, L6
For the story behind the stones, click here.
Ash Creek, Texas
On February 15th, 2009 at around 11AM local time, a small asteroid entered the atmosphere and broke up over Birome, Texas. Larger …
Estherville, Mesosiderite-A3/4
Estherville was one of the most spectacular bolides yet witnessed when it tore its way through Earth’s atmosphere above Iowa in 1879. …
Marjalahti, Pallasite-PMG
Marjalahti is one of four witnessed pallasite falls as of 2014. The only work I was able to find that thoroughly described …
Forest City, H5
Forest City was a seminal American fall, studied by some of America’s earliest dedicated meteoriticists. A detail of note regarding this fall: …
Gao, H5
On March 5th, 1960, stones fell amongst the rooftops of several villages near Burkina Faso’s border with Ghana. Sonic effects were heard …
Gashua, L6
Gashua was witnessed to fall in Nigeria in April, 1984. I don’t have much to add to the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up. At …