Battle Mountain is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in Humbolt County, Nevada, August 22 of 2012. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB101): The fall was observed in weather radar imagery from the US NEXRAD radar network, operated by the US National Weather Service. The discovery and analysis was done by Dr. Marc Fries, Galactic […]
Category: Meteorites
Albareto
Albareto is an ordinary (L/LL4) chondrite that fell in northern Italy in July of 1766. The meteorite's fall was widely witnessed, as it occurred in the middle of the day, and accounts describe the stone impacting with such force that the ground shook and a cow was knocked off its feet. The 2 kg stone […]
Sterlitamak
Sterlitamak is a IIIAB iron meteorite that fell late on the night of May 17, 1990, in Russia. According to a paper published 2 years after the fall [M.I. Petaev (1992) Meteorite Sterlitamak — A New Crater Forming Fall. Meteoritics, 27(3), p. 276]: Many witnesses in South Bashkiria saw a very bright fireball (up to […]
Bovedy
Bovedy is an (L3) ordinary chondrite that fell in Northern Ireland the night of April 25, 1969, near Belfast. The Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 46) describes the fall: "The fireball was seen all the way from Sussex through London, Doncaster and Yorkshire to Northern Ireland toward Belfast. It was moving from ESE to W NW very […]
Bishopville
Bishopville is an aubrite meteorite that fell in Sumter County, South Carolina, on March 25, 1843. According to an article published in the journal Meteoritics (vol. 19) by H. H. Nininger: Its meteor and the explosion which accompanied the fall were witnessed over an area 30 to 40 miles in diameter. One six-kilogram stone was […]
