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Weight : 0.699 kilograms

Agoudal

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Weight : 0.485 kilograms

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

Aletai

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Weight : 0.780 kilograms

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

Ayagoz

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Weight : 0.654 kilograms

Campo del Cielo

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Weight : 3.8 kilograms

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

Gebel Kamil

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Weight : 1.018 kilograms

Gibeon

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Weight : 1.496 kilograms

Henbury

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Weight : 0.642 kilograms

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

Morasko

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Weight : 0.980 kilograms

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

Muonionalusta

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Weight : 2.142 kilograms

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

NEA 002

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Weight : 0.141 kilograms

QARA

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Weight : 0.370 kilograms

Sikhote - Alin

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Weight : 0.159 kilograms

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

Odessa Iron IAB-MG

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Weight : 1.34 kilograms

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

SERICHO

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Weight : 0.850 kilograms

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

Turqut

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Weight : 0.59 kilograms

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

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Weight : 1.2880 kilograms

Uruacu

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Weight : 1.2040 kilograms

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

Zaragoza

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Weight : 0.616 kilograms

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

SAINT-AUBIN

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Weight 9.7 kilograms

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

SEBKHA EL MELAH 001

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Weight 0.97 kilograms

History of SEBKHA EL MELAH 001

This meteorite was found in late March 2022 in the region of "Wad Alhath" in Mali, about 54 km northeast of the village of Tamanieret and 245 km southeast of Taoudenni, by Sahrawi meteorite hunters. The total recovered amount was approximately 17 kg. Bachir Salek obtained 12.5 kg, including the main mass, which weighs 3550 g.

Physical characteristics: This meteorite consists primarily of clusters of coarse, interlocking enstatite crystals with a pegmatitic texture. Individual crystals are cm-sized, many showing distinct cleavage planes and traces. Some enstatite crystals are milky-white in color, while a few are colorless translucent to transparent and gemmy. The enstatite crystals separate from the clusters easily, and the largest single crystal weighed 45 grams and was approximately 5 cm long and 2 cm wide. There are also scattered dark-colored patches on some of the crystals. Significant amounts of smooth cream-colored to white fusion crust are visible, although some fusion crust is dark-colored. No vesicles are present. The meteorite appears to be unbrecciated.

More information from The Meteoritical Society SEBKHA EL MELAH 001
Fall to the world year 2022 Gao, Mali Total weight 17 kilograms

SERICHO

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Weight : 6.64 kilograms

History of SERICHO

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