Portales Valley, an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell the morning of June 13, 1998, in New Mexico. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 83): "After detonations were heard and smoky trails seen in the sky, a shower of meteorites landed near Portales, New Mexico. 53 objects have been recovered, with a total mass of 71.4 […]
Category: Meteorites
Kiel
Kiel is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell April 26, 1962, in Kiel, Germany. The 738-gram (1.6-pound) stone went through the roof of a house, and was found the next day in the attic by the resident. No fireball or accoustic phenomena were witnessed at the time of the Kiel meteorite fall, however, the stone’s […]
Renqiu
Renqiu is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell the afternoon of March 23, 1916, in Hopeh Province, China. While the stone was collected in 1916, it was not recognized as a meteorite until 1975, when the Peking Astronomical Planetarium recovered it from an elderly man whose grandfather had collected and kept the 355 g (12.5 […]
Ash Creek
Ash Creek is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in McLennan County, Texas. The morning of Sunday, February 15, 2009, a bright fireball was witnessed traveling SE from Austin to Fort Worth, and was even recorded by a local television news cameraman. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB96), “sonic booms were widely heard for a […]
Ucera
Ucera is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the evening of January 16, 1970, near Coro, Venezuela. Originally reported as a potential iron meteorite, under the name Coro, the Ucera meteorite classification was corrected and updated in 1971 (MB 50): "A crusted stone was recovered by a farmer in Ucera, the specimen having fallen near […]
