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, […]
Category: Meteorites
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 […]
Karoonda
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 […]
Chitado
Chitado is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in the province of Cunene, southwest Angola. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 53): On October 20, 1966, a shower of meteorites fell near Chitado, within an area of approximately 6 km2. Several stones weighing several hundred grams each and a few of some kilograms were collected […]
Fall and classification of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite
Center for Meteorite Studies Meteorite Curator Laurence Garvie is featured in a new article published in the journal Science on the meteorite Aguas Zarcas. Aguas Zarcas is a carbonaceous (CM2) meteorite that fell in Costa Rica April 23, 2019. One 280 g (approx 10 oz) piece struck a dog house, and another 1152 g (approx […]
