Click on the links below to read more about the meteorites in the Carleton B. Moore collection and view meteorite photos!
Tishomingo
Tishomingo is an ungrouped iron meteorite found in Johnston County, Oklahoma. 14-year-old Glenn Orr literally stumbled over the meteorite in January of 1965, while bird hunting near the town of Tishomingo. Oscar E. Monnig presented the Tishomingo discovery details at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, in 1967: His excavation revealed not one, […]
Claxton
Claxton is an (L6) ordinary chondrite that fell in Evans County, Georgia, the evening of December 10th, 1984. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 63): A grapefruit sized stone, completely covered with thin black fusion crust, fell damaging a metal mail box and making a depression less than 30 cm (12 inches) in diameter in […]
Karoonda
Karoonda is a carbonaceous (CK4) chondrite that fell in Australia the night of November 25, 1930. According to a paper describing the meteorite (Mason and Wiik, 1962): At 10:53 P.M. on November 25, 1930, an extremely brilliant meteor was seen by many observiers in South Australia. A meteorite fell near Karoonda, a small settlement […]
Chitado
Chitado is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in the province of Cunene, southwest Angola. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 53): On October 20, 1966, a shower of meteorites fell near Chitado, within an area of approximately 6 km2. Several stones weighing several hundred grams each and a few of some kilograms were collected […]
Fall and classification of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite
Center for Meteorite Studies Meteorite Curator Laurence Garvie is featured in a new article published in the journal Science on the meteorite Aguas Zarcas. Aguas Zarcas is a carbonaceous (CM2) meteorite that fell in Costa Rica April 23, 2019. One 280 g (approx 10 oz) piece struck a dog house, and another 1152 g (approx […]
Plantersville
Plantersville is an ordinary (H6) chondrite that fell in Texas the afternoon of September 4, 1930. In his 1937 American Mineralogist research article, Professor John Lonsdale described the circumstances of the meteorite fall, as recounted to him by witnesses: This locality is forested and only the fact that six men … were cutting timber within […]
Springwater
Springwater is a pallasite (PMG-an) found in Saskatchewan, Canada. In August of 1931, Harvey H. Nininger received the first of several masses of the Springwater meteorite from citizens of Springwater, Saskatchewan, which is approximately 100 miles west of the city of Saskatoon. He later described the meteorite in American Mineralogist: Nothing is known of the […]
Ramsdorf
Ramsdorf is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in Germany, the evening of July 26, 1958. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 13): The meteorite fell from a clear sky and neither light nor percussion phenomena were observed. The fall was accompanied by a noise similar to that of propeller; it started and stopped suddenly. […]
NWA 725
Northwest Africa 725 (NWA 725) is an acapulcoite achondrite found in Morocco. As defined by the Meteoritical Society, members of the acapulcoite-lodranite group of meteorites are equigranular primitive achondrites that show subchondritic compositions, with mineral assemblages similar to, but distinct from, ordinary chondrites. Acapulcoites are finer grained than lodranites and some rare members contain relict […]
Zhob
Zhob is an ordinary (H3-4) chondrite, that fell the evening of January 9, 2020, near Baluchistan, Pakistan. Zhob was recently classified by ASU Center for Meteorite Studies Curator Laurence Garvie. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 109): A bright fireball followed by sonic booms was seen and heard around the northern part of the […]
