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Collection highlights

 

Click on the links below to read more about the meteorites in the Carleton B. Moore collection and view meteorite photos!

Meteorite Collection

Norton County

Norton County fell February 18th of 1948, on the Kansas/Nebraska border. Norton County is a rare type of meteorite called an aubrite, which is an enstatite achondrite. Aubrites are dominated by enstatite – a pyroxene mineral containing Mg, Si, and O. This mineral is white in Norton County, as opposed to the more normal green […]

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Coolidge

Coolidge is a carbonaceous (C4-ungrouped) chondrite found in Kansas in 1937. According to Meteoritical Society classification, type-4 carbonaceous chondrites mostly have Mg/Si ratios near solar value, oxygen isotope compositions that plot below the terrestrial fractionation line, and abundant metamorphosed chondrules. At the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies, collection curator and research professor Laurence Garvie deciphers […]

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Camel Donga

Camel Donga is an achondrite found on the Nullarbor Plain of Western Australia in 1984.  The word “donga” is a term for “campsite” in Australia. Camel Donga is a eucrite (monomict breccia), part of the HED group of meteorites (Howardites-Eucrites-Diogenites).  These meteorites are believed to originate from the cooling of magma on the surface of […]

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Puente-Ladron

Puente-Ladron is a type L ordinary chondrite found in Socorro County, New Mexico by Harvey H. Nininger. On May 17, 1944, H.H. Nininger stopped for a bit of lunch on a lonely stretch of New Mexico highway and, as was his habit, scanned the area around him for meteorites while eating. “I started on, but […]

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Charsonville

November's Meteorite of the Month is Charsonville, an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell in France, in 1810. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB online): "On November 23, 1810, at 1:30 p.m, a meteor, coming from the north, burst over the town of Charsonville. A violent detonation then occurred, which was also heard from Orléans, Meung, […]

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Bilanga

October’s Meteorite of the Month is Bilanga, an achondrite meteorite (meaning that it formed on a differentiated planetary body, and does not contain chondrules) that fell in Burkina Faso, October 27 of 1999. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB84): After a widely witnessed shower, at least 25 kg of meteorites with fresh black fusion crust […]

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Dashoguz

September’s Meteorite of the Month is Dashoguz, an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell September 5, 1998. The meteorite’s fall was witnessed near the city of Daşoguz, in northern Turkmenistan, but it took several weeks of searching to find a very small crater containing just over 15 lb (7 kg) of the meteorite – all that […]

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Tarda

August's Meteorite of the Month is Tarda, a carbonaceous (C2-ung) chondrite that fell in Morocco on August 25, 2020. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 109): "On Tuesday, 25 August 2020, around 2:30 pm Moroccan time (GMT+1) a fireball was widely witnessed by people in southern Morocco from Alnif, Zagora, Tazarine, and Rich. The fireball […]

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Djati-Pengilon

Djati-Pengilon is an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell the afternoon of March 19, 1884 in the Ngawi Regency of Indonesia. A single stone weighing over 365 lb (166 kg) was recovered from the Aloesta river following a fireball and detonations. According to the Meteoritical Society, the high-iron (H) chemical group of ordinary chondrites is distinguished […]

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Angers

Angers is an L6 chondrite. This daytime meteorite fall occurred June 3rd of 1822, and the stones landed in a garden in the city of Angers, France, located approximately 300 km south-west of Paris. Following, is an account of the event as later related in the Edinburgh Advertiser newspaper (Scotland): Tuesday, January 14, 1823 ACCOUNT […]

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