Leap Year Meteorite! Centerville is an H5 ordinary chondrite of which only one 45.6g stone was ever recovered. Centerville fell in Turner County, South Dakota, February 29th of 1956. Although its fall was not witnessed, it was recovered the morning after, as it had punctured the aluminium roof of a machine shed and hit a […]
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 […]
Chergach
Chergach is an H5 ordinary chondrite that fell in the Timbuktu district of Mali. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 94), the meteorites fell the 2nd or 3rd of July, 2007. The fall was witnessed by nomads, who reported seeing a smoke cloud and hearing several detonations during the day. Approximately 100 kg of material […]
Millbillillie
Over 330 kg (727 lbs) of this eucrite (achondrite) fell in a shower of stones over Millbillillie and Jundee Stations, Wiluna district, Western Australia, in October of 1960. Amazingly, despite the fall being observed by station workers, the first of these meteorites was not collected until 1970. Eucrites are the most common type of achondrite […]
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 […]
