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The Nakhla Meteorite fell on June 28, 1911 in Beheira Governorate, Egypt.

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A piece of the Henbury Iron Meteorite, found in central Australia.

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A piece of the Shergotty Meteorite that fell on August 25, 1865 in India.

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Unlabeled Meteorite from the 1880s.

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Fragment of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 8563 Meteorite.

Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2iUXxmy

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Main Mass of NWA 8563 — a Rare Monomict Eucrite Meteorite from Asteroid 4 Vesta

I am in awe of its cosmic beauty. From SpaceCom: "Unlike most asteroids, the interior of Vesta is differentiated. Like the terrestrial planets, the asteroid has a crust of cooled lava covering a rocky mantle and an iron and nickel core.
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A fragment of the Homestead Meteorite that fell on February 12, 1875 in Iowa, USA.

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Iron meteorite from the fall at Mazapil, Mexico on November 27, 1885.

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The Lafayette Martian Meteorite was mysteriously found in Purdue's collection in 1931.

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A fragment of the Nantan Meteorite that was found (1950s) in Guangxi, China.

shi zhao, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/pqceZ

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南丹铁陨石

1516年的陨石雨,陨落于广西南丹县里湖乡甲木村西南山坡,1958年发现.重680kg。为粗粒八面体铁陨石（Fe91%; Ni7%）,1992年8月放在北京天文馆
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A slice of the Mezö-Madaras Meteorite that fell on September 4, 1852 in Romania.

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A piece of the Nuevo Mercurio Meteorite that fell on December 15, 1978 in Mexico.

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The Murchison Meteorites fell on September 28, 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia.

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A fragment of the Orgueil Meteorite that fell in France on May 14, 1864.

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A slice of the Barbotan Meteorite that fell on July 24, 1790 in France.

Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2kFjV15

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Meteorite Fall from 1790, before Scientists Thought it Possible that Rocks Could Fall from the Sky

Christie's described this slice of science history as such: "BARBOTAN METEORITE SHOWER OF 1790 — THAT REPORTEDLY KILLED A HERDSMAN A remarkable celestial event was witnessed by a physicist in Pau, France in the late 1700s.
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A Barwell Meteorite specimen from the fall on December 24, 1965 in United Kingdom.

Barwell Meteorite by Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A fragment of the Viñales Meteorite that fell on February 1, 2019 in Cuba.

Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2naZzkd

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The Many Faces of Viñales, a Witnessed Meteorite Fall in Cuba 2019

Viñales is a witnessed meteorite fall, one of the rarest natural phenomena that human beings experience.
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A slice of the Vigarano Meteorite that fell in Italy on January 22, 1910.

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The Northwest Africa 13203 Meteorite with oriented regmaglypts.

Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2jAoGVQ

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Oriented Regmaglypts

Regmaglypts are thumbprint-sized indentations in the surface of larger meteorites formed by ablation as the meteorite passes through a planet's atmosphere, probably caused by vortices of hot gas.
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The Tenham Meteorite was found in Queensland, Australia in 1879.

the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Jbilet Winselwan Meteorite was found in June 2013 in Western Sahara.

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The Murchison Meteorites fell on September 28, 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia. Photo taken at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A fragment of the Alby sur Chéran Meteorite that fell in France sometime in February 2002; photo taken at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Diepenveen Meteorite fell on October 27, 1873 in Netherlands.

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The meteorite that fell in Komaki City, Japan on September 26, 2018.

名古屋太郎, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Meteorolites" by James Sowerby (1856).

1. Wold Cottage, Yorkshire

2. High Possil, Scotland

3. Tipperary, Ireland

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A fragment of the Millbillillie Meteorite that fell in October 1960 near a cattle station in Western Australia.

Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Natural History; Open Access, publicdomain/zero/1.0; Mineralogy and Meteoritics, Yale University; https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-MIN-101025

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A fragment of the New Concord Meteorite that fell on May 1, 1860 in Ohio, USA.

Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Natural History; Open Access, publicdomain/zero/1.0; Mineralogy and Meteoritics, Yale University; https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-MIN-010301 (Misslabelled as Iron)

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The Erg Chech 002 Meteorite was found in 2020 in Algeria.

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The Jonzac Meteorite fell on June 13, 1819 in France.

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The Hamilton Meteorite was found in 1966 in Queensland, Australia.

Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/245

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Hamilton meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
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The Mighei Meteorite fell on June 18, 1889 in Ukraine.

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The Esquel Pallasite was found in 1951 near a town in the province of Chubut, Argentina. Etched slices of the Esquel Pallasite make some of the most beautiful pieces of art.

Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)

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Esquel meteorite

Stony-Iron, Pallasite
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A piece of the Valle Meteorite that fell in Setesdalen, Norway on February 3, 2012.

Terje Fjeldheim, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A fragment of the New Concord Meteorite that fell on May 1, 1860 in Ohio, USA.

Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Natural History; Open Access, publicdomain/zero/1.0; Mineralogy and Meteoritics, Yale University; https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-MIN-100378

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A piece of the Angra dos Reis Meteorite that fell on January 20, 1869 in Brazil. It is the type specimen of the Angrites and one of the rarest meteorites.

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The Pasamonte Meteorites fell on March 24, 1933 in New Mexico, USA.

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Piece of the Vícenice Iron Meteorite that was found in 1911 in the Czech Republic.

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On March 4, 1960 around 700 pieces of the Bruderheim Meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada.

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A slice of the Chajari Meteorite that fell on November 29, 1933 in Argentina.

Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/azyDug

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Chajari

This rarely seen L5 fell on November 29, 1933, in Entre Rios, Argentina. A single stone weighing 18.3 kgs was found buried in the ground at a depth greater than 1 meter. Most of this material remains in Argentina. This partial slice weighs 8.
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The Pnompehn Meteorite fell on June 20(-30), 1868 in Cambodia.

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