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Barwell

Barwell is an L5 chondrite that fell near Leicester, in Great Britain. The afternoon of December 24th, 1965, a large fireball was seen travelling across England’s skies. Soon after, there was a loud sonic boom, and several meteorite pieces rained down upon the village of Barwell, in Leicestershire, hitting buildings and roads but, luckily, none […]

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Bells

September’s Meteorite of the Month is Bells, a C2-ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite that fell near Bells, Texas, September 9th of 1961. In his 1963 article “The Bells, Texas, Meteorite” (Meteoritics. 2:1, p.67), Oscar E. Monnig describes the fall: "A detonating fireball, September 9, 1961, over northeast Texas resulted in a fall of meteorites. By a prompt […]

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