r/meteorites

I'm working on a game and I need to come up with a name for a meteorite that strikes earth but I have no idea how the naming works. Basically the sentence is "It's been nearly 20 years since (meteor name) struck earth. Can you guys help me?

I decided to contact AMS regarding the increase in fireballs due to my anxiety. I won't share the full email, but key line

"The meteoroid environment appears to be essentially unchanged; our ability to observe and document it has improved enormously. As more people become aware that the American Meteor Society documents these events, the number of reports has increased throughout the years. At a quick glance it appears that the number of fireballs are increasing, but it is actually the number of reports that is increasing."

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1. Multiple, sharp, in-focus images taken ideally in daylight.
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An example of a good Identification Request:

Please can someone help me identify this specimen? It was collected along the Mojave desert as a surface find. The specimen jumped to my magnet stick and has what I believe to be a weathered fusion crust. It is highly attracted to a magnet. It is non-porous and dense. I have polished a window into the interior and see small bits of exposed fresh metal and what I believe are chondrules. I suspect it to be a chondrite. What are your thoughts? Here are the images.

The month of June has 7 100+ report fireballs on AMS. This is massively up from last year, and 3 in the last few days in Europe alone. I’m super paranoid but is this just random statistical variation?

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Hi! I'm looking to buy a slice of a Pallasite Meteorite and saw these ones on Etsy. Can someone tell me if they are real or fake?

Thank you so much for your help in advance

Here are some links for the meteorites in question

- https://www.etsy.com/pt/listing/4528312994/fatia-de-meteorito-palasita-serichoide?ls=s&ga_order=price_asc&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=meteorite+pallasite&ref=sr_gallery-2-7&pro=1&frs=1&content_source=8c00172c-43f6-49af-bf00-269118eb3176%253ALTb6960d1c7bdc79b0adc4c813f338a4683fb2d453&organic_search_click=1&logging_key=8c00172c-43f6-49af-bf00-269118eb3176%3ALTb6960d1c7bdc79b0adc4c813f338a4683fb2d453

-https://www.etsy.com/pt/listing/4508936579/fatia-de-meteorito-pallasita-seymchan?ls=s&ga_order=price_asc&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=meteorite+pallasite&ref=sr_gallery-1-34&pro=1&frs=1&content_source=acae29f5-fe21-4806-96c3-7f9c7ba1e55c%253ALT70f02f5b3a1f5bb7a2a294cceb1a16315ef49ea5&organic_search_click=1&logging_key=acae29f5-fe21-4806-96c3-7f9c7ba1e55c%3ALT70f02f5b3a1f5bb7a2a294cceb1a16315ef49ea5

The 60-ton iron-nickel slab, the Hoba meteorite, landed in Namibia less than 80,000 years ago. The Earth’s atmosphere friction slowed the asteroid to the degree that it impacted the surface at terminal velocity (around 1200 km/h), remaining intact and causing minimal excavation.

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I was inspired to make this video because someone in one of the FB groups posted a possible meteorite he thought was Gebel Kamil. It failed the nickel test and here’s why:
I ran a DMG nickel test on a Gebel Kamil iron three times, on three differently prepared surfaces, and got two negatives and a positive on the same piece.

Filed exterior: negative. Freshly sawn face: negative. A face I etched with ferric chloride: instant bright pink.

The reason is that DMG reacts with nickel in solution, not with solid metal. Clean filed or sawn nickel-iron is too inert for a plain drop to dissolve any nickel, so you get a false negative even on a high-nickel meteorite. The etch frees nickel into ionic form, so the reagent reacts at once. A negative result often just means the surface was never prepared, not that there is no nickel.

Worth keeping in mind before anyone writes off a suspect iron over a single failed spot test.