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. […]
Category: Meteorites
Talampaya
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 […]
Domanitch & Bursa
Domanitch is an (L5) ordinary chondrite that fell in Bursa, Turkey, in 1907, and is the first of two meteorites to have fallen in Bursa; the second being Bursa, an (L6) ordinary chondrite that fell 39 years later, in 1946. How do we know that Bursa is a distinct meteorite, and not a piece of […]
Tishomingo
Tishomingo is an ungrouped iron meteorite found in Johnston County, Oklahoma. 14-year-old Glenn Orr literally stumbled over the meteorite in January of 1965, while bird hunting near the town of Tishomingo. Oscar E. Monnig presented the Tishomingo discovery details at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, in 1967: His excavation revealed not one, […]
Claxton
Claxton is an (L6) ordinary chondrite that fell in Evans County, Georgia, the evening of December 10th, 1984. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 63): A grapefruit sized stone, completely covered with thin black fusion crust, fell damaging a metal mail box and making a depression less than 30 cm (12 inches) in diameter in […]
