Spade is an ordinary (H6) chondrite found in Lamb County, Texas, in October of 2000. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 87), “a single mass of 8.86 kg was found in a grass field by Mr. J. Talbert while farming.” Photo © ASU/BCMS. […]
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Crescent
Crescent is a CM2 carbonaceous chondrite that fell in Oklahoma, the evening of August 17th, 1936. The associated fireball was visible in Texas and Kansas, as well as Oklahoma, and the meteorite’s recovery was immediately organized. While the first stone, a 73-gram chondrite in fresh condition, was collected three days after the fall (by a […]
Thika
Thika is an ordinary (L6) chondrite that fell in central Kenya the morning of July 16, 2011. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 100): A bright fireball in multiple pieces was observed from southern Kenya traveling to the northwest around 10 am on the July 16, 2011. Residents around Kiambu County in the Thika District […]
Nakhla
Nakhla is a martian achondrite that fell June 28th, 1911, in Al Buhayrah, Egypt. At the time of the fall, a newspaper article was published claiming the meteorite had hit a dog on entry. This was never proven, but did inspire a Peanuts cartoon strip, in which Linus and Charlie Brown discuss the meteorite striking […]
Norton County
Norton County fell February 18th of 1948, on the Kansas/Nebraska border. Norton County is a rare type of meteorite called an aubrite, which is an enstatite achondrite. Aubrites are dominated by enstatite – a pyroxene mineral containing Mg, Si, and O. This mineral is white in Norton County, as opposed to the more normal green […]
