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Ucera
Ucera is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the evening of January 16, 1970, near Coro, Venezuela. Originally reported as a potential iron meteorite, under the name Coro, the Ucera meteorite classification was corrected and updated in 1971 (MB 50): "A crusted stone was recovered by a farmer in Ucera, the specimen having fallen near […]
Canon City
Canon City is an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell in Fremont County, Colorado. A meteor observed the evening of October 27, 1973, was likely associated with the meteorite, which was found after puncturing the roof of a garage sometime that same night. While the house’s residents were away for the evening, the meteorite’s arrival surely […]
Arbol Solo
Arbol Solo is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell in the Socoscora District of San Luis Province, Argentina, in September of 1954. Witnesses reported seeing a bright light and hearing what sounded like a hailstorm one night, as several stones fell in the small village of Arbol Solo. The next morning, the many meteorite pieces […]
Arroyo Aguiar
Arroyo Aguiar is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the summer of 1950, in Argentina. The fall was witnessed by a local rancher, near the railway station Arroyo Aguiar, in La Capital Department of Santa Fe Province. The single stone recovered weighed 7.45 kg (over 16 lbs), and had embedded itself 50 cm (almost 20 […]
Nejo
Nejo is a 2.45-kg ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell near the village of Jarso, in the Wollega Province of Ethiopia May 11, 1970. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 50): High-pitched noise indicated that three objects passed over Jarso heading north-northwest. One fell hitting the ground at the same time an explosion was heard. The […]
Kabo
Kabo is an ordinary (H4) chondrite that fell the afternoon of April 25, 1971 in the Gwarzo District of Kano State, Nigeria. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 51), the meteorite’s fall to Earth was witnessed by farmers at work in their fields near the town of Kabo, approaching from the west. A field investigation […]
Jilin
Jilin is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the afternoon of March 8, 1976 in the northern part of the district of Kirin, Kirin Province, China. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB59): At about 1500 hr on 8 March 1976 a red fireball moving SW was sighted by townspeople of Hsinglung. During flight here were […]
Padvarninkai
Padvarninkai fell February 9, 1929, in Adroniski, Lithuania. Close to 4 kg of material were recovered days after the witnessed fall, and the meteorite was originally classified as a Martian shergottite due to its maskelynite content. This classification was updated, however, upon further analysis, and Padvarninkai is now classified as a monomict eucrite, part of […]
Pultusk
Pultusk is an H5 chondrite that fell January 30, 1868, near the town of Pultusk in northeastern Poland. One of the largest meteorite showers in recorded history at the time, the fall is said to have produced tens of thousands of stones, and over 250 kg of material was recovered. The Center for Meteorite Studies […]
Rancho Gomelia
Rancho Gomelia is an iron (IIIAB) meteorite found near Durango, Mexico, in 1975. Two pieces, weighing a total of 15.65 kilograms, were recovered. This specimen of Rancho Gomelia measures approximately 8" in length, and displays an excellent Widmanstatten pattern (named for Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstatten, director of the Austrian Imperial Porcelain Works, in 1808), […]
