Acapulco fell in El Quemado Colony, just outside Acapulco, Mexico, August 11th of 1976. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 55), the finder’s account is that “the bolide followed a west to east trajectory, producing a buzz similar to that of a small aeroplane and an impact like that of a cannon ball. It landed […]
Chela
Chela is an ordinary chondrite (H5) that fell in the Kahama district of Tanzania around noon on July 12th, 1988. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 68), locals were alerted to the fall by a loud noise and detonations. They collected several of the fallen stones, and some were sent to the police and to […]
Abee
Abee is an EH4 (enstatite) chondrite that fell in northern Alberta. According to Griffin et al. (1992), around 11pm on the night of June 9th, 1952, the sky north of Edmonton was lit up by a brilliant fireball. One observer at a local drive-in movie theater even claimed that it was so bright that the […]
Kapoeta
Kapoeta is a howardite (achondrite) that fell in the Sudan at 7pm on April 22nd, 1942. Only one stone, weighing over 11 kg, was recovered, after falling on the Kapoeta-Nathalani road from which the meteorite takes its name. Howardites are mainly composed of brecciated eucrite and diogenite pieces, and are believed to form as a result […]
Bruderheim
Bruderheim is an L6 ordinary chondrite that fell in Alberta, Canada. Nearly 700 stones fell over an area of approximately 3km, following a widely witnessed bright fireball and detonation, the morning of March 4th, 1960. With a total recovered mass of over 300 kg, the Bruderheim shower represents the largest recovered meteorite fall in Canada, […]
