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Moore County

Moore County is an achondrite (eucrite-cm) meteorite that fell the evening of April 21, 1913, in North Carolina.

The Moore County fall was accompanied by a "rumbling and zooming" noise, with "no distinct explosions", according to eye witness accounts, and was recovered from a freshly plowed field near Carthage, North Carolina.

Moore County is a cumulate eucrite, part of the Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) meteorite group. Members of the HED meteorite group are believed to have formed on the surface of asteroid 4-Vesta. According to radioisotope dating, the HED achondrites crystallized between 4.43 and 4.55 billion years ago.

Read more about HED meteorites, and see photos, here!

Read more about the Moore County meteorite, here!

Moore County meteorite
Photo: The Moore County meteorite. Image copyright ASU/CMS/D. Schrader.