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 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 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 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…

Karoonda is a carbonaceous (CK4) chondrite that fell in Australia the night of November 25, 1930.   According to a paper describing the meteorite (Mason and Wiik, 1962): At 10:53 P.M. on November 25, 1930, an extremely brilliant meteor was seen by many observiers in South Australia. A meteorite fell near Karoonda, a small settlement…