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 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 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…

Leighlinbridge is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell the night of November 28, 1999,  in County Carlow, Ireland. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 84), “a bright fireball accompanied by detonations was observed over Carlow”.  In an article from January of 2000, BBC News described the fall as spectacular, and cited witness accounts of the…

Manych is an ordinary (LL3.4) chondrite that fell in the Stavropol region of Russia. While the first 1.86 kg stone was found shortly after it fell in the village of Manych, October 21, 1951, it wasn’t until years later that a second piece of the Manych meteorite was identified.  The second stone weighed 1.7 kg,…