SAINT-AUBIN

History of  SAINT-AUBIN
The Saint-Aubin meteorite is a iron (IIIAB) meteorite that landed in Champagne, France roughly 55,000 years ago. Five pieces were found in 1968 by farmers as they plowed fields. More recent discoveries using advanced metal detection equipment have brought its total collected mass to over 6 metric tons. It also has a very attractive Widmanstätten pattern with a high nickel, high gold, and low iridium chemistry.

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SAINT-AUBIN  Fall to the world year  1968  in Champagne-Ardenne, France  weight  472 kg

Zaragoza

History of Zaragoza
This meteorite was found around 1950 near Zaragoza and sold to a mineral collector. Years later, his widow at a mineral fair sold it to Americans Jim Strope and Michael Farmer  who cut it into slices and small pieces to sell it to other meteorite collectors. According to him, it has been the hardest meteorite that he has ever cut, since he needed around 3 full days to cut each slice. It weighed 162kg and only one piece is known. This had regmaglyphs on a surface that was worn and had some cracks. Zaragoza is an anomalous type IVA metallic meteorite, given its high germanium content. It is an extremely hard and stable meteorite, with a smooth pattern that can only be seen up close.

More information from The Meteoritical Society Zaragoza  Fall to the world year  1950s Total weight  162 kilograms

Uruacu

History of Uruacu
Uruaçu (pronounced Oo roo ah SUE) is an interesting iron meteorite first found on a ranch in Brazil. It has a comparatively low total known weight, and a significant number of recovered specimens were very large. The entire strewnfield lies on private land and has been hunted exclusively by the owner and his agents over a period of many years. As a result, Uruaçu irons appear only occasionally on the market. It is a coarse octahedrite and when cut and etched it displays a highly attractive Widmanstätten pattern, somewhat similar to Sikhote-Alin.

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Uruacu Fall to the world year  1992  in Goias, Brazil Total weight  72.5  kilogram

Turqut

History of Turqut
A 152 kg piece of iron was discovered by Mr. Cemil Gunay in April 1999, while he was plowing a field. The specimen was 30 cm deep. Mr. Gunay took the specimen to his home where he attempted to cut it. He applied rust-proofing spray. It was then kept outside in a hot and dry environment in his garden for approximately 10 years, when the existence of the specimen was noted by Turkish meteorite collector Mesut Kasikci (a resident of France), who then informed academic research institutions about the find. The specimen was brought by Mesut Kasikci to Dr. Catherine Caillet Komorowski of the MNHNP.

More information from The Meteoritical Society Turgut  Fall to the world year  1999 Total weight  152 kilograms

Toluca

History of Toluca
The meteorites probably crashed into Earth more than 10,000 years ago. For centuries, Mexican people living near the meteorites used them as a source of metal for various tools. They were first described by conquistadores in about 1776.

The total known mass is about 3 tonnes.

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Toluca  Fall to the world year  1776 in Mexico Total weight  3 ton

Sikhote - Alin

History of Sikhote - Alin
In southeastern Russia, an iron meteorite fell on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in 1947. Large iron meteorite falls have been witnessed, and fragments have been recovered, but never before in recorded history has a fall of this magnitude occurred. An estimated 23 tonnes  of fragments survived the fiery passage through the atmosphere and reached the Earth.

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Sikhote Alin Fall to the world year  1947 in Primorskiy kray, Russia Total weight  23 ton

SERICHO

History of SERICHO
In 2016, two brothers were searching for their camels and came across several large, dense stones west of the village of Habaswein and south of Sericho, Kenya. There are no rocks in this area, so they decided they were meteorites. They spent several weeks collecting them with engine hoists and moving them to their homes in Habaswein. Though recognized as meteorites in 2016, the masses had been known to camel-herders for decades. One village elder said that as a child, he and his brothers would play on top of the stones. In early January 2017, Michael Farmer received an email showing a photo of giant pallasite weighing 107 kg. He traveled to Nairobi and purchased this stone. Two weeks later he returned to Kenya with Moritz Karl and traveled to Habaswein. Here they were shown more than one ton of specimens stacked in the courtyards of two house compounds. To date, more than 2800 kg has been found.

More information from The Meteoritical Society SERICHO  Fall to the world year  2016 Total weight  2.8 Ton

QARA

History of QARA
Single piece of iron was bought from Mr. Abdiqani Hussein, in Nairobi, Kenya in May 2020. Mr. Abdiqani Hussein stated that meteorite was found in the desert at coordinates: 2°04.031N; 39°01.016E 

More information from The Meteoritical Society QARA  Fall to the world year  2020 Total weight  19.95 kilograms

Odessa Iron IAB-MG

History of Odessa
The Odessa Meteor Crater is a meteorite crater in the southwestern part of Ector County, southwest of the city of Odessa of West Texas, United States. It is accessible approximately 3 mi (5 km) south of Interstate 20 at Exit 108 (Moss Road). This is one of three impact crater sites found in Texas, the others being the older and much larger Sierra Madera crater and the Marquez crater.

The Handbook of Texas Online describes the Odessa meteor crater as the largest of several smaller craters in the immediate area that were formed by the impact of thousands of octahedrites (an iron metallic type) that fell in prehistoric times.

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Odessa Fall to the world year  1922 in Texas, USA Total weight  1.6 ton

NEA 002

History of NEA 002
A 5480 g iron meteorite was purchased in 2004.

More information from The Meteoritical Society NEA 002  Fall to the world year  2004 Total weight  5.48 kilograms

Muonionalusta

History of Muonionalusta
The Muonionalusta meteorite (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈmuo̯nionˌɑlustɑ], Swedish pronunciation: [mʉˈǒːnɪɔnalːɵsta]) is a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million years BCE.

The first fragment of the Muonionalusta meteorite was found in 1906 near the village of Kitkiöjärvi. Around forty pieces are known today, some being quite large. Other fragments have been found in a 25x15 kilometre (15.5 mi × 9.3 mi) area in the Pajala district of Norrbotten County, approximately 140 kilometres (87 mi) north of the Arctic Circle.

The meteorite was first described in 1910 by Professor A. G. Högbom, who named it after the nearby place Muonionalusta on the Muonio River. It was studied in 1948 by Professor Nils Göran David Malmqvist. The Muonionalusta meteorite, probably the oldest known meteorite (4.5653 ± 0.0001 billion years), marks the first occurrence of stishovite in an iron meteorite.

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Muonionalusta  Fall to the world year  1906 in Norrbottens, Sweden Total weight  230  kilograms  

Morasko

History of Morasko
The Morasko meteorite nature reserve (Polish: Rezerwat przyrody meteoryt Morasko) is located in Morasko, on the northern edge of the city of Poznań, Poland. It contains seven meteor craters. The reserve has an area of 55 hectares (136 acres) and was established in 1976.

The largest of the seven craters on the reserve has a diameter of about 100 metres, and is about 11 metres deep. Five of the craters, including the largest, contain lakes. The date of formation is estimated to be about 5,000 years ago (Holocene).[2][3]

The first meteorite found at Morasko was uncovered in 1914 by German soldiers working on the construction of a military fortification. Since then, many further fragments have been found, including one weighing 78 kg in 1956.

More information from The Meteoritical Society Morasko Fall to the world year  1914  Total weight  290 kilograms

Henbury

History of Henbury
The craters are named for Henbury Station, a nearby cattle station named in 1875 for the family home of its founders at Henbury in Dorset, England. The craters were discovered in 1899 by the manager of the station, then went uninvestigated until interest was stirred when the Karoonda meteorite fell on South Australia in 1930. The first scientific investigations of the site were conducted by A.R. Alderman of the University of Adelaide who published the results in a 1932 paper entitled The Meteorite Craters at Henbury Central Australia. Numerous studies have been undertaken since.

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Henbury Fall to the world year  1931 in Northern Territory, Australia  Total weight  2 ton

Gibeon

History of Gibeon
Gibeon is a meteorite that fell in prehistoric times in Namibia. It was named after the nearest town: Gibeon.

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Gibeon Fall to the world year  1836 in Namaland, Namibia  Total weight  26 ton

Gebel Kamil

History of Gebel Kamil
Gebel Kamil is a meteorite that struck Egypt later than 3000 BC, leaving a crater surrounded by thousands of pieces of iron shrapnel with a total weight of about 1,600 kilograms (3,500 lb)

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Fall to the world year  2009  Total weight  1.6 ton

Campo del Cielo

History of Campo del Cielo
Campo del Cielo refers to a group of iron meteorites and the area in Argentina where they were found. The site straddles the provinces of Chaco and Santiago del Estero, located 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) north-northwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina and approximately 500 kilometres (310 mi) southwest of Asunción, Paraguay. The crater field covers 18.5 by 3 kilometres (11.5 by 1.9 mi) and contains at least 26 craters, the largest being 115 by 91 metres (377 by 299 ft)  

More information from The Meteoritical Society Campo del Cielo Fall to the world year  1576 Total weight 50 ton

Ayagoz

History of Ayagoz
A large iron meteorite was found in prairie by a horse rider in 2000, ~12 km south of Ayagoz. A 38.9 kg piece and a 7 kg piece were brought to two different dealers by Jevgenijs Suhanovs in Ayagoz city. Samples from both pieces were analyzed to confirm they came from the same meteorite.

More information from The Meteoritical Society Ayagoz  Fall to the world year  2018 Total weight 45.9 Kilograms

Aletai

History of Aletai
Aletai meteorites were discovered in 1898, in the Aletai region of the Xinjiang Province of China. The Aletai meteorite's strewn field (the area of which a meteorite is distributed after a fall) is approximately 430 kilometers, which is the largest strewn field known to date. Interestingly, scientists believe that this large strewn field is because the meteorites shallow angle of entry and trajectory of the fall created an effect similar to skipping a stone over water. This is highly unusual for meteorites, and studies on this could produce a similar effect in other incoming meteorites, potentially using the long-duration dissipation of energy to prevent a catastrophic meteorite impact on Earth.


More information from The Meteoritical Society Aletai Fall to the world year  1898  Total weight  74  ton

Agoudal

History of Agoudal
This iron meteorite is called Agoudal also known as Imilchil. It was named after an area in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco. It is a relatively new discovery. It is mainly composed of iron mixed with nickel. It is classified as an Iron meteorite (IIAB). IIAB meteorites are a group of iron meteorites with a structural classification ranging from hexahedrites to octahedrites. IIABs have the lowest concentration of nickel of all iron meteorite groups .

The Agoudal meteorites are a group of iron meteorites first discovered in 2000 in Morocco. Its tough composition makes it something of a rarity as most meteorites that form impact craters are vaporized on the spot. All this rare meteorite material has been a boon to the scientific community, as iron meteorites allow for a greater understanding of the inner cores of planetoids.

More information from The Meteoritical Society Agoudal  Fall to the world year  2000  Total weight  100 kilograms

Adrar 013

History of Adrar 013
The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Timokten, Algeria.

More information from The Meteoritical Society Adrar 013 Fall to the world year 2023 Total weight 3.15 Kilograms
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