Northwest Africa 5000 (NWA 5000) is a lunar (feldspathic breccia) found in southern Morocco in July of 2007. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 93), NWA 5000 is: A single, large cuboidal stone (11.528 kg) with approximate dimensions 27 cm × 24 cm × 20 cm. One side (which appears to have been embedded downward…

Abee is 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 up by a brilliant fireball. One observer at a local drive-in movie theater even claimed that it was so bright that the…

New Concord is an ordinary (L6) ordinary chondrite that fell in Muskingum County, Ohio. Over thirty individual meteorite fragments, weighing a combined 230 kg (507 lb) fell in a broad swath over eastern central Ohio at approximately 12:45 PM on May 1, 1860. The meteorites are named after the town nearest the largest concentration of…

L'Aigle is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in Orme, France on April 26, 1803. The L'Aigle meteorite fall, which produced a shower of over 3,000 stones, proved to European scientists that rocks fall from the sky. Although people had seen meteorites fall before 1803, their stories had typically been doubted by the scientific community….

Talampaya is an achondrite that fell in Argentina, in 1995. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 83):  Stories circulating among meteorite dealers tell of a meteorite that fell in Argentina, producing a sonic boom that scared a mountain climber. The climber eventually found the meteorite somewhere down range. The location of the fall may have…