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Piece of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite.

"This specimen was found on a field between the villages of Deputatsky and Emanzhelinsk on February 18, 2013."

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

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Piece of the Chelyabinsk Meteorite.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/1994867
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Chelyabinsk meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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Canyon Diablo Meteorite; found 1891 Arizona, USA. Photo taken at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute.

Dsdugan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A slice of the Homestead Meteorite that fell on February 12, 1875 in Iowa, USA.

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

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Etched slice of the Toluca meteorite (first find date uncertain, Mexico ~1776). Exhibit in the Naturmuseum Freiburg, Germany.

Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A piece of the Seymchan Meteorite, it was first found in Magadanskaya Oblast, Russia in June 1967.

Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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GIF animation showing the fall of a meteorite as it transitions between Meteoroid - Meteor (Bolide) - Meteorite.

Meteor126, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Slice of the DaG 1037 Martian Meteorite.

Flickr via Steve Jurvetson: https://flic.kr/p/2kFHWmG (CC BY 2.0)

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The Inner Beauty of Mars — DaG 1037 with trapped Martian Atmosphere

This slice was made by others, but it best reveals what lies within my 2kg Martian stone. My focus is on the vesicles that riddle the darker shock-melt areas.
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Johnstown Meteorite; fell July 6, 1924 in Colorado, USA.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/2153959

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Johnstown meteorite

Stone, Achondrite, Diogenite
Museums Victoria Collections
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The Weekeroo Station Iron Meteorite was found 1924 in Australia; photo showing etched surface taken at the Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University.

Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Ochansk Meteorite; it fell on August 18, 1887 in Russia.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/264

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Ochansk meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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Three small pieces of the Pultusk Meteorite; it fell on January 30, 1868 in Poland.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/290

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Pultusk meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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Seen here is a slice of the Moorabie Meteorite, which fell before 1965 in Australia.

Sample at the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin.

Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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An oriented fragment of the Sikhote-Alin Meteorite.

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

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Shooting Star

You can see the ballistic streaks of melting metal coming in hot at Mach 36… a glorious moment frozen in place… the fiery end to a long arc from the asteroid belt.
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The Marília Meteorite fell on October 5, 1971 in Brazil.

Gabisfunny, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Adamana Meteorite found in Arizona; at the University of Arizona Mineral Museum.

Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Article about conical meteorites: https://eos.org/articles/goldilocks-meteors-carved-into-cones

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Goldilocks Meteors Carved into Cones

Their “just right” shape lends some shooting stars flight stability and symmetry.
Mary Caperton Morton (Eos)
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Campo del Cielo Meteorite seen at the Naturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg.

Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A piece of the Seymchan Meteorite, it was first found in Magadanskaya Oblast, Russia in June 1967.

Dsdugan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Zag Meteorite; its fall date is listed as August 4 or 5, 1998; Morocco.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/132

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Zag meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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The Bath Furnace Meteorite at the Field Museum of Natural History. It fell on November 15, 1902 in Bath Furnace, Kentucky, USA.

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

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Cranbourne meteorite No. 1 known as the Bruce Meteorite (photograph held by State Library of Victoria, accession no. H36595)

Photographer: Richard Daintree, State Library of Victoria, Public Domain (Licensed as Public Domain Mark).

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Piece of the Bensour Meteorite, found 11 February 2002 on the border of Morocco and Algeria.

Jon Taylor via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/9aB11F

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Bensour

This alternate view shows the chipped area of the stone. The pale matrix contrasts nicely with the jet black fusion crust.
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In 1865 the Aumale Meteorite fell in Bouira, Algeria.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/191

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Aumale meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld, in 1870, and the meteoritic block of iron found by Ovifak from "Le ciel" 5th ed. (1877) by Amédée Guillemin.

non identifié, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Fragments of the Korra Korrabes Meteorite were found in Namaland, Namibia in November 1996.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/84417

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Korra Korrabes meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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The Tissint Meteorite was observed to fall on July 18, 2011 in Morocco.

Tissint meteorite at the Vienna Natural History Museum. Flickr via paleobear https://flic.kr/p/2cLbcDv

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Tissint meteorite

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One of the most unique meteorites: "Black Beauty" (NWA 7034) Martian Basaltic Breccia.

Although I could never find thin sections of this particular one, I was able to acquire related ones: NWA 11220 and NWA 8171.

NWA 8171 Visible: https://flic.kr/p/2kWRKaw

NWA 8171 XPL: https://flic.kr/p/NYpHYW

NWA 11220: https://flic.kr/p/2m1Lspi

NWA 11220 XPL: https://flic.kr/p/ZQJrh9

Mars Meteorite - NWA 7034, NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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NWA 11220 Meteorite Thin Section - Gigapixel

Martian Basaltic Breccia Nikon D810 digiCamControl Zerene Stacker Picture Window Pro GIMP ImageMagick Full-screen gigapixel krpano panorama: cdn.solaranamnesis.com/ThinSections/krpano/nwa11220/Meteo... Post: blog.solaranamnesis.
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"Types of Meteorites" from "Das Weltgebäude" by Max Wilhelm Meyer (1898).

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

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, ²°¹°°, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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A slice of the Los Angeles Meteorite on display at UCLA. Found in 1999; Los Angeles, California.

My profile's avatar comes from a thin section of this meteorite (https://flic.kr/p/28TQUKn).

Vahe Martirosyan (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2fwtkCP

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Meteorite Thin Section Los Angeles 002 - Gigapixel

Shergottite Nikon D810 GIMP Zerene Stacker Picture Window Pro Digicam Control Post: blog.solaranamnesis.com/2018/08/20/los-angeles-002-meteor... Full-screen gigapixel krpano panorama: cdn.solaranamnesis.com/ThinSections/krpano/la002/Meteorit...
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A slice of the D'Orbigny (Angrite) Meteorite; 1276 grams. Found in July 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

They make some of the most colorful cross polarized microphotographs. (See my gallery. https://www.flickr.com/photos/solaranamnesis/albums/72157711553252271)

Dsdugan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Angrite Meteorites

Album devoted to Angrites
Solar Anamnesis (Flickr)
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A fragment of the Homestead Meteorite that fell on February 12, 1875 in Iowa, USA.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/189

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Homestead meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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The Bjurböle Meteorite fell on March 12, 1899 into the frozen Baltic Sea. It created a hole in the ice about 50 kilometers from Helsinki. It was recovered from the sea.

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

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Baltic Sea Splash by the Bjurböle Meteorite of 1899

The Deep Impact auction this week had an incredible collection of space rocks. When I saw this historical stone that landed in the Baltic Sea near my homeland, I was intrigued! The fireball was seen all around Baltic Sea and approached Helsinki form…
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The Albareto Meteorite fell in July 1766 in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Massimo Barbieri, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Tuxtuac Meteorite fell on October 16, 1975 in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/213

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Tuxtuac meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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A piece of the Henbury Iron Meteorite, found in central Australia.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/90

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Henbury meteorite

Iron, Octahedrite, medium
Museums Victoria Collections
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A fragment of the Luotolax Meteorite that fell near Luotolahti in Finland on December 16, 1813.

Luotolax meteorite - Arppeanum, Helsinki. Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Camel Donga Meteorite was found in 1984 in Western Australia.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/119

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Camel Donga meteorite

Stony, Achondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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The Pasamonte Meteorites fell on March 24, 1933 in New Mexico, USA.

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

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/specimens/217

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Pasamonte meteorite

Stony, Achondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
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A piece of the Stannern (Stonařov) Meteorite; a number of meteorites were witnessed to fall on May 22, 1808 into the Moravian village of Stonařov, Czech Republic.

Přírodovědné muzeum ve Vídni, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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