76 years on planet Earth.
Zambia’s first witnessed fall meteorite.
Classified as L6 OC.
This specimen is a broken-off fragment of a larger piece from Dipper Co. meteorites— IMCA 8120.
Peekskill, the New York state car hitter meteorite! I finally, finally have a piece after YEARS of dreaming to have one, and this one’s got a bonus, look at that PAINT! I’d say the price is sort of a steal and it’s worth it.
Pantar, the 4th Philippine meteorite after Pampanga, Paitan and Calivo. Now I have 4 of 7 official meteorites from my country!: Pantar, Orconuma, Bondoc and Ponggo. Next ones in my list are Pampanga and Paitan, Calivo however, is a missing meteorite, even our museum doesn’t have it in their displays and it’s not catalogued into any known private or public collection, it’s rumored to have been lost during the second world war when the Manila Observatory (?) was destroyed.
EDIT: Thank you to u/maverick_88 for noting, Yes, the Peekskill image is edited to give emphasis on the red paint on the crust that’s why it looks unusually vivid than usual.
Fell on this day in 2003, 23 years on planet Earth!
Classified as an H5 ordinary chondrite.
Most of the mass of this meteorite was taken away and lost during the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It had a TKW of 19.26 kg.
First and second photo are NOT MINE.
First photo belongs to Arizona State University’s Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies - meteorites.asu.edu
Second photo belongs to the Mindat website - Mindat.org
Third photo is a close up of 4 micro-fragments of New Orleans that I have in my collection.
Fall date: September 12, 2008
One of India’s largest meteorites by TKW at 110 kg.
Classified as an L6 OC
PHOTO NOT MINE
📸 by Meteorite Recon.
Quite cool to think that these three pieces of space rocks originate from heavenly bodies we already know extensively about.
Tatahouine has to be the coolest diogenite i’ve ever seen, it’s my first and only diogenite. Might be going for Johnstown or some NWA diogenites.
NWA 11228 has a remarkable visual appearance of the felspathic matrix and the colors of the clasts in it make the piece look like it’s a slice off of the Moon.
HM001 is one of my first meteorites, it arrived with Muonionalusta and Campo, I didn’t get any martians until 7 months later, which an Amgala 001. HM001 is a nakhlite, so that’s the moderately rare type of the already rare martian group of meteorites.
Was originally aiming for Leighlinbridge to represent Ireland in my collection but it was unobtainium since a low TKW combined with the fact that most of it are in private collections and/or museums, then I backed down and searched for other Irish falls.
I came across Limerick and Bovedy, and chose the latter since Bovedy is an L3 and we don’t usually get L3 falls that much.
FALL: April 25, 1969
The ammonite is a Cleoniceras from Madagascar, the space rock is “Bassikounou” from Mauritania. The space rock fell in October 2006 and looks freshly burnt. The ammonite exhibits well-defined suture patterns, I love it.
In order:
Tatahouine
Fall: June 27, 1931
Diogenite
Allegan
Fall: July 10, 1899
H5 OC
Wadsworth (Medina County)
Fall: March 17, 2026
Eucrite monomict
Henbury
Fall: No, found 1931
Iron, IIIAB
Aiquile
Fall: November 20, 2016
H5 OC
Jikharra 001
Fall: No, found 2022
Eucrite melt breccia
Sterlitamak
Fall: May 17, 1990
Iron, IIIAB
Allende
Fall: February 8, 1969
CV3 CC
Aguas Zarcas
Fall: April 23, 2019
CM2 CC
(Funky stuff)
Trinitite
Created during the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945.
Not meteorite related but thought it’s cool enough to be posted here along with a part of my collection :)
Usually erratic, unusual for the region, stayed unusually long inland than it did on water, etc.
Images of their tracks are also recommended for this post.
Just thought of posting this here since Typhoon Dolphin is doing those weird wave-like tracks at this point and Tropical Storm Kujira made an infinite sign-looking loops over Luzon Island.
Allegan
WITNESSED FALL - JULY 10, 1899
H5 OC
Michigan, USA
Tatahouine
WITNESSED FALL - JUNE 27, 1931
Diogenite
Tatawin, Tunisia
Monze
WITNESSED FALL - OCTOBER 5, 1950
L6 OC
Southern Province, Zambia
First four photos were Snaggletooth shark teeth from the Miocene, Hemipristis serra.
Fifth photo is a 3/4 Otodus megalodon tooth from Charleston, South Carolina
Sixth photo is the Lycoptera davidii fish from China
Seventh photo is an unidentified Diptera (fly) preserved in amber
Last photo is an enrolled Phacopida trilobite (possibly Austerops or Phacops itself.
Brenham has a mass of 4.88 g
Seymchan has a mass of 10.0 g
The metal content on seymchan and thickness of the slice contributes to its unusual heaviness despite Seymchan looking like it has the same size in relation to the Brenham slice.
The cube is 1x1 cm, for your reference.
Thuathe
Classified as H5 Ordinary Chondrite
Total Known Mass is at 45.3 kg
Fell on July 21, 2002 at around 13:49 GMT
Lunar and Planetary Institute link: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=23976
Brenham
Pallasite (PMG-an)
First pieces and fragments found in 1882
Ex-Dipper Co. piece
Specimen mass is 4.88 gr.
TKW of Brenham is approximately 4,300 kg.
Classified as an unbrecciated eucrite; fell on July 9, 2014 at around 21:30 local time; weathering stage is W0 (fresh/pristine) and shock stage is low.
As per the Meteoritical Society:
History: (H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane, A. Aaronson, M. Aoudjehane, A. Bouferra, A. Bouragaa) On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 around 9:30 pm, residents of Tirhert, Foum El Hisn, Douar Imougadir and nearby villages in southern Morocco, witnessed an intense fireball moving horizontally in a NW to SE direction and lasting about 4 s, shortly followed by multiple sonic booms. The fireball was seen by people from cities and villages more than 220 km around the fall site near Tirhert. Immediately following the fireball event the mayor and the authorities of the area organized a field search with police to check for possible security problems. The first meteorites were recovered the following day close to the road between Foum El Hisn and Assa. Thousands of people moved to the site from surrounding cities and villages to search, but many soon left because of the difficulties of searching during the hot 50°C daytime temperatures. The positions of many of the pieces were recorded from eyewitness testimonials, forming a roughly 6 × 3 km strewnfield trending NW to SE. The largest recorded mass around 1300 g was collected close to Tirhert at the coordinates listed for this entry. Recovered pieces weighed from 1 to 1300 g, with an estimated total mass of 8 to 10 kg. Most pieces are covered by a very shiny, black fusion crust.
You can freely share your very own Tirhert in the comments below!