Bouvante is a eucrite (monomict breccia) achondrite discovered by a French police officer on July 30th, 1978, while he and his family were picnicking. One 8.3 kg, black fusion-crusted meteorite was recovered from a 50-60 cm deep hole, and was the only specimen found. The Bouvante meteorite has been featured on two different countries’ postage…

Marjalahti is one of only 4 witnessed pallasite falls. Marjalahti fell June 1st, 1902, in what is now the Republic of Karelia, a federal subject of Russia. Approximately 45 kg were recovered. Upon examination, it was determined that the olivine crystals contained in this pallasite were of such consistently high purity that they should be…

Puerto Lápice is a brecciated eucrite (achondrite). According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 93), a brilliant fireball was visible all over Spain, travelling northward, just before 6 PM on May 10, 2007. The meteorite was tracked by the Spanish Fireball Network and fell in and around an olive grove in Ciudad Real, Castilla-La-Mancha. To date,…

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.

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…