Park Forest is an ordinary chondrite (L5) that fell in the Chicago suburb of Park Forest around midnight on March 26, 2003. This was a huge shower of hundreds of stones, including two that crashed through homes and one that hit a fire station. […]
Category: Meteorites
Sikhote-Alin
Sikhote-Alin is an iron meteorite that fell spectacularly at 10:38 AM, February 12, 1947, in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, northeast of Vladivostok, Russia. Witnesses to the fall saw a fireball brighter than the sun, that appeared from the North and then exploded violently at the very low altitude of ~3.5 miles. Fragments of the meteorite were […]
Weston
Weston is an H4 ordinary chondrite that fell in Fairfield County, Connecticut on December 14, 1807. Weston has historical significance because it provided proof for American scientists that meteorites fall from the sky at a time when reports of such events were treated with skepticism. For many years, however, Thomas Jefferson (then President of the […]
Bondoc
Bondoc is a mesosiderite found on the Bondoc Peninsula, Philippines, and obtained by H.H. Nininger in 1962. Over 850 kg of the meteorite was recovered, 550 kg of which is now housed at the Center for Meteorite Studies. Bondoc is an extremely unusual, heterogeneous, brecciated meteorite consisting of a silicate matrix of cumulate pyroxene with […]
Murchison
September of 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the Murchison meteorite fall, one of the most important meteorite falls in human history. This carbonaceous chondrite was witnessed entering the Earth’s atmosphere between 10:45 and 11:00 AM September 28th, 1969, in Victoria, Australia. The meteorite broke up into pieces as it fell, and several fragments were recovered, totaling over 100 kg. Some specimens were […]
