Aioun el Atrouss is a diogenite-pm (achondrite) that fell April 17, 1974, in southeastern Mauritania. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 56): A fireball was observed and a sonic boom was heard. Meteoritic material was recovered from three separate sites in sandy, desert terrain by tribesmen. Aioun el Atrouss is classified as a diogenite-pm, meaning […]
Category: Meteorites
Monahans (1998)
Monahans (1998) is an (H5) ordinary chondrite that fell in Ward County, Texas, the evening of March 22, 1998. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 82): Two stones, weighing 1344 g and 1243 g, fell in the city of Monahans, Texas, after two sonic booms and a fireball were observed over a wide area […]
Juancheng
Juancheng is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell late the night of February 15, 1997 in Shandong Province, China. More than 1,000 individual stones, totaling over 100 kg of material, were subsequently recovered, including one piece that fell through a roof and landed in a pot on the stove! Photo: ASU/CMS. […]
Lost City
Lost City is an (H5) ordinary chondrite that fell in Oklahoma, USA, January 3, 1970, at 8:14 PM. The many witnesses described the associated fireball lighting up the town, and a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Special Report (#336) compared its brightness to that of the full moon. The report goes on to say that: Sonic booms […]
Nuevo Mercurio
Nuevo Mercurio is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the evening of December 15, 1978, in Zacatecas, Mexico. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 57): "A bright fireball, traveling NE. to SW. and visible over a radius of at least 200 km, exploded over north-central Mexico and scattered meteorites over an elliptical area more than […]
