Ourique is an (H4) ordinary chondrite that fell in the early hours December 28, 1998, in Aldea del Palhieros, Baixa Alentejo, Portugal. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 83): Many stones with a total mass probably near 20 kg were recovered along a rural path after a brilliant fireball and loud noises were observed by…

Manitouwabing is an iron (IIIAB) meteorite found south of Manitouwabing Lake, Ontario, Canada, in November of 1962. In his 1964 paper, The Metallography of Manitouwabing, Parry Sound, Ontario: A New Canadian Siderite, R. Knox Jr. describes how the meteorite was identified: About a dozen years ago Philip Johnson, a furniture manufacturer of Parry Sound, Ontario,…

Hamlet is an ordinary (LL4) chondrite that fell the evening of October 13th, 1959, in Indiana. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 17): The meteorite struck a house, breaking off a piece of the gutter, and was found in the yard about 30 minutes after its fall. The stone has a conical shape; however, a…

Breitscheid is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the afternoon of August 11, 1956, in Hesse, Germany. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 2): The fall of the meteorite was observed as a short, light yellow, somewhat reddish fiery trail. Judging by the broken branches of trees and the aspect of the hole, it may…

Thuathe is an ordinary (H4/5) chondrite that fell in Lesotho the afternoon of July 21, 2002. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 87), the meteorite exploded over Lesotho, approximately 12 km east of the capital city of Maseru. The explosion was accompanied by an extraordinarily loud, 15 s long noise which was heard over a…