Veramin is a mesosiderite (B2) that fell in Iran in 1880. The recovered mass of Veramin is 54 kg to date. Determining the exact date of the meteorite’s fall proved challenging, as reported in Meteoritical Bulletin 68: The fall of Veramin was first reported by F. Dietzch, a German mining engineer, who received a piece […]
Category: Meteorites
Gruneberg
Gruneberg is an ordinary (H4) chondrite that fell in Poland the afternoon of March 22, 1841. At the time of the meteorite’s fall, the town was part of the Prussian region of Silesia. The Polish name for the meteorite is Wilkanowko. According to an account published in the American Journal of Science and Arts that […]
Little Piney
Lucky 13! Little Piney is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in Missouri the afternoon of February 13, 1839. The meteorite’s entry was heard by local witnesses as it exploded between 3 and 4 PM, with 3 subsequent smaller explosions as it broke into pieces. The witnesses went in search of the stones they’d seen […]
Hessle
New Year’s Day Meteorite! Hessle is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell south of Uppsala, Sweden January 1, 1869, shortly after noon. This was the first meteorite fall ever witnessed in Sweden, and was seen by a number of people as they were leaving church. It was an overcast day in Hessle, so the bright […]
Sena
Sena is an ordinary (H4) chondrite that fell November 17, 1773, near Sarinena, Spain. The meteorite was later analyzed by the French chemist J. L. Proust, who may have been the first to recommend cold deserts, such as polar regions, for meteorite recovery. He determined this in 1805, based on the iron-nickel inclusions in Sena […]
