Losttown is an iron meteorite (IID) found in Georgia, in 1868. This specimen exhibits excellent Widmanstätten pattern (named for Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten, director of the Austrian Imperial Porcelain Works, in 1808), created by the interlocking crystal structure of two nickel-iron alloys. Most iron meteorites are believed to originate in the cores of large […]
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Lodran
Lodran is an achondrite that fell in eastern Pakistan the afternoon of October 1st, 1868. The stone’s fall was witnessed, and people reported hearing the meteorite’s entry, as well as seeing dust rise from its impact. Lodran is the type specimen for the lodranite meteorite group. Like acapulcoites, lodranites are primitive achondrites of asteroidal origin […]
Athens
Athens is an ordinary (LL6) chondrite that fell the morning of July 11, 1933, in Limestone County, Alabama. Only one stone, weighing approximately 265 g., was recovered. According to C.C. Wylie and Stuart H. Perry, who described the Athens fall in great detail in volume 41 of Popular Astronomy (1933), a farmer and his son […]
Château-Renard
Château-Renard is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell near Montargis, in Loiret, France June 12, 1841. The meteorite’s fall was published in the American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 42, as reported in the New York Observer on August 14, 1841: Meteorite in France. – Galignani’s Messenger mentions that at a late session of […]
Vermillion
Vermillion is an ungrouped pallasite that was found by farmers in Marshall County, Kansas, while planting a field. Although the 34.36 kg meteorite was discovered in 1991, it was not recognized as a pallasite until 1995. Vermillion is an unusual pallasite in that it contains 86 volume % FeNi-metal and 14 vol.% silicate minerals, including […]
