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, […]
Category: Meteorites
Gujba
Gujba is a bencubbinite (carbonaceous chondrite). According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 85), Gujba was witnessed by the occupants of the village of Bogga Dingare, Nigeria, as it fell in a cornfield the evening of April 3rd, 1984. Because the villagers broke it into several pieces, the original mass of the meteorite is unknown but […]
Park Forest
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
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 […]
