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Fragment of L'Aigle Meteorite. On 26 April 1803 more than 3,000 fragments fell near the town of L'Aigle, France.

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-100377

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A slice of the Parnallee Meteorite that fell on February 28,1857 in Tamil Nadu, India.

Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/9EF8Ad

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Parnallee

Parnallee is a LL3.6 chondrite that fell on Feb 28, 1857 in Tamil Nadu, India. Sonic booms preceded the fall of two stones around 12:00 noon. This is a beautiful meteorite that has an abundance of chondrules packed in the matrix.
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A fragment of the Parnallee Meteorite that fell on February 28,1857 in Tamil Nadu, India.

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-100379

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A slice of the New Concord Meteorite; from Ohio, USA.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/240

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New Concord meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
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A fragment of the Wethersfield Meteorite that fell on November 8, 1982 in Connecticut, USA.

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Wethersfield (1982) - L6, Fell 1982-11-08
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The Red River Iron Meteorite found 1808 in Texas, USA.

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Piece of the Allende Meteorite, observed to fall on February 8, 1969 in Chihuahua, Mexico.

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Allende, Fell 1969-02-08
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A piece of the Krasnojarsk Meteorite shown to Pallas in 1772 by Medvedev.

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Krasnojarsk, Found 1750
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A fragment of the Gao-Guenie Meteorite that fell on March 5, 1960 in Burkina Faso.

Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Oliver Meteorite was found in Nebraska, USA in July 1984.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/287

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Oliver meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
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The Bassikounou Meteorites fell in Mauritania on October 16, 2006.

Meteorite Recon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Waltman Meteorite was found in 1948 in Wyoming, USA.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/218

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Waltman meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
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A large piece of the Weston Meteorite that fell in Connecticut, USA on December 14, 1807.

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Weston, H4, Fell 1807-12-14
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A fragment of the Aba Panu Meteorite that fell on April 19, 2018 in Nigeria.

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

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Aba Panu — A Fresh Fall Meteorite Lacking Fusion Crust

On April 19, 2018, a flash of light and deafening roar startled the residents of Southwestern Nigeria. There were initial fears of an earthquaker, but NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) recorded the event: a 0.
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The Gibeon Iron Meteorites were found by the Nama and used since prehistoric times.

Meteorite Recon, Dr. Svend Buhl, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Carraweena Meteorite was found in 1914 in Australia.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/291

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Carraweena meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
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The Kainsaz Meteorite fell on September 13, 1937 in Tatarstan.

Meteorite Recon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A fragment of the Morasko Meteorite at the Mineralogical Museum, Wrocław, Poland.

Mariuszjbie, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Claire H., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/5y1fAJ

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Stone Achondrite Meteor

(Martian Calcium-rich Pyroxenite) Found in 1931, original impact site unknown.
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Piece of the Toluca Iron Meteorite.

Dsdugan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Dr. Svend Buhl, Niger Meteorite Recon, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Fragment of the Tamdakht Meteorite that fell on December 20, 2008 in Morocco.

Meteorite Recon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Thuathe Meteorite fell on July 21, 2002 in South Africa.

James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/ow6t6j

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Ordinary chondrite (Thuathe Meteorite) (4.4 Ga) 1

Ordinary chondrite - Thuathe Meteorite (fusion-crusted individual; 3.5 centimeters across at its widest) Chondrites are the most common type of meteorites that fall to Earth.
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The Neuschwanstein Meteorite (Fragment 1) that fell on April 6, 2022 near Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany.

Florian Schweidler (Tueftli), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A slice of the Seymchan Meteorite that was found in Russia in 1967.

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

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Huge Seymchan Pallasite

The Seymchan meteorite was found in Magadan District, Russia in 1967. Full of olivine space gems. It is the result of the violent destruction of what would otherwise have been a planet during the formation of our solar system.
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Fragments of a broken 4 gram piece from the Sutter's Mill Meteorite.

Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute) and Eric James (NASA Ames), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Piece of the Oldenburg Meteorite that fell on September 10, 1930 in Germany.

Ernst Unkraut-Brüning, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.

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The Stannern Meteorite exhibit at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. It fell on May, 22, 1808 in the Czech Republic.

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Mainmass of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 3009 Meteorite.

Norbert Gesser, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Saint-Ouen-en-Champagne Meteorite that fell on September 29, 1799 in France.

Musée Vert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A slice of the New Concord Meteorite; from Ohio, USA. At the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Etched slice of the Odessa Iron Meteorite at the Naturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg, Germany.

From the Odessa Meteor Crater southwest of the city of Odessa, Texas.

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Slice of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 6212 Meteorite.

Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/8p4b8V

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NWA 6212

This 4.46 gram partial slice is classified as an LL3 Chondrite, S1 WO-1 and was taken from a single 375 gram stone. Lots of chondrules.
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"One of the larger recovered fragments of the asteroid and meteoroid 2008 TC₃." December 8, 2008 Sudan.

Peter Jenniskens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Slice of the Ensisheim Meteorite at the exhibit in the Naturmuseum Freiburg, Germany.

Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Northwest Africa (NWA) 5549 Iron Meteorite at Arizona State University.

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Kaali Crater Meteorite from the Estonian island of Saaremaa.

Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2ngzo29

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The Touchstone for Meteoritic Mythology — from Kaali Crater, Estonia

A peek inside the rare Kaali Crater meteor from Estonia. I just obtained this, a complement to the main mass I obtained earlier. On rare occasion in the era before science, a meteor would explode in the sky near a populated area.
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Cover of "Comets, Meteors, and Meteorites. (Guide leaflet, No. 77, American Museum of Natural History)," by Chester Reeds (1933). Color edits and cropping.

It presumably shows the "Saviksue" or Cape York Meteorite, used by locals for centuries, shown to Peary in 1894. The main mass was renamed Ahnighito by Peary (it was also called the "Tent"). Other pieces include the Woman and the Dog.

https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/7212

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"The Suizhou meteorite shower occurred on April 15, 1986 in Dayanpo, Suizhou Prefecture, Hubei Province at 6:50 pm."

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

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CHINA'S SUIZHOU METEORITE FEATURING THE NEWLY DISCOVERED MINERAL "TUITE"

The Suizhou meteorite shower occurred on April 15, 1986 in Dayanpo, Suizhou Prefecture, Hubei Province at 6:50pm, a witnessed fall. Suizhou is most widely known for containing a mineral never before seen in nature.
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An oriented fragment of the Sikhote-Alin Meteorite, at the Museum of Natural History, Florence.

Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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