Collection Highlights

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  • Bishunpur

    April's Meteorite of the Month is Bishunpur, an LL3 ordinary chondrite that fell in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh at 3pm on April 26th, 1895.  While four stones were preceeded by detonations and witnessed falling, two were lost shortly after recovery, and only...

  • Gao-Guenie

    March’s Meteorite of the Month is Gao-Guenie, an H5 ordinary chondrite that fell in the province of Sissili, Burkina Faso in 1960. For many years, this stone was the source of some confusion in the meteorite world!

  • Centerville

    Leap Year Meteorite!

    February’s Meteorite of the Month is Centerville, an H5 ordinary chondrite of which only one 45.6g stone was ever recovered. Centerville fell in Turner County, South Dakota, February 29th of 1956.

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  • Tagish Lake

    January’s Meteorite of the Month is Tagish Lake, a C2-ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite that fell in Canada in 2000. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 84), the Tagish Lake fall was preceded by a bright fireball visible in northern British Columbia and...

  • Barwell

    December’s Meteorite of the Month is Barwell, an L5 chondrite that fell near Leicester, in Great Britain.

    The afternoon of December 24th, 1965, a large fireball was seen travelling across England’s skies. Soon after, there was a loud sonic boom, and...

  • Chergach

    November’s Meteorite of the Month is Chergach, an H5 ordinary chondrite that fell in the Timbuktu district of Mali.

    According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 94), the meteorites fell the 2nd or 3rd of July, 2007. The fall was witnessed by nomads,...

  • Millbillillie

    October’s meteorite of the month is Millbillillie. Over 330 kg (727 lbs) of this eucrite (achondrite) fell in a shower of stones over Millbillillie and Jundee Stations, Wiluna district, Western Australia, in October of 1960.

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  • Bells

    September’s Meteorite of the Month is Bells, a C2-ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite that fell near Bells, Texas, September 9th of 1961.

    In his 1963 article “The Bells, Texas, Meteorite” (Meteoritics. 2:1, p.67), Oscar E. Monnig describes the fall:

  • Acapulco

    August’s Meteorite of the Month is Acapulco, which fell in El Quemado Colony, just outside Acapulco, Mexico, August 11th of 1976.

    According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 55), the finder’s account is that “the bolide followed a...

  • Chela

    July’s Meteorite of the Month is Chela, an ordinary chondrite (H5) that fell in the Kahama district of Tanzania around noon on July 12th, 1988.

    According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 68), locals were alerted to the fall by a loud noise and...

  • Abee

    June’s Meteorite of the Month is Abee, an EH4 (enstatite) chondrite that fell in northern Alberta.

    According to Griffin et al. (1992), around 11pm on the night of June 9th, 1952, the sky north of Edmonton was lit...

  • Puente-Ladron

    May’s Meteorite of the Month is Puente-Ladron, a type L ordinary chondrite found in Socorro County, New Mexico by Harvey H. Nininger.

    On May 17, 1944, H.H. Nininger stopped for a bit of lunch on a lonely stretch of New...

  • Kapoeta

    April’s Meteorite of the Month is Kapoeta, a howardite (achondrite) that fell in the Sudan at 7pm on April 22nd, 1942. Only one stone, weighing over 11 kg, was recovered, after falling on the...

  • Bruderheim

    Bruderheim is an L6 ordinary chondrite that fell in Alberta, Canada. Nearly 700 stones fell over an area of approximately 3km, following a widely witnessed bright fireball...

  • Homestead

    Homestead is an L5 ordinary chondrite that fell February 12th, 1875 in Iowa County, Iowa. This meteorite was preceded by a bright fireball that was visible across the American Midwest, and fell in...