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The Ash Creek Meteorite fell on February 15, 2009 in Texas, USA.
Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/9f2F3Q
The Crawdad Meteorite was recovered near Crested Butte, CO (not in LPI database?).
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A large slice of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 12675 Meteorite.
Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2kFfjSe
Ring Around the Chondrules: the largest slice of NWA 12675 CV3
Originally found in 2019, this ancient denizen of our early solar system was found in the Saharan Desert an sold through a dealer in Assamakka, Niger to another in Poland, and I bought it from there.Flickr
The Pultusk Meteorite fell on January 30, 1868 in Poland.
Meteoryt_Pułtusk_1.jpg: Koefbac derivative work: Basilicofresco (msg), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Oubari Meteorite was found in Libya in 1944.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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The Murchison Meteorites fell on September 28, 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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The Flensburg Meteorite fell on September 12, 2019 in Germany.
Carsten Jonas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Thin Section of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 10669 Meteorite in Cross Polarized Light.
Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2c8KkxD
NWA 10669 Meteorite Thin Section - Gigapixel
LL3 Chondrite View full-screen krpano Gigapixel Panorama: cdn.solaranamnesis.com/ThinSections/krpano/nwa10669/Meteo... Post: blog.solaranamnesis.com/2018/10/17/nwa-10669-meteorite-th... Tumblr: solaranamnesis.tumblr.Flickr
A slice of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 8472 Meteorite.
James St. John, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2nKERvm
Ordinary chondrite (North West Africa 8472 Meteorite)
Ordinary chondrite - North West Africa 8472 Meteorite from Morocco. (cut slice; ~7.6 centimeters across) Chondrites are the most common type of meteorites that fall to Earth.Flickr
The Porangaba Meteorite fell on January 9, 2015 in Brazil.
Gabisfunny, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A fragment of the Ochansk Meteorite; it fell on August 18, 1887 in Russia.
James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/oeCv8d
Ordinary chondrite (Ochansk Meteorite)
Ochansk Meteorite - a fusion-crusted H4 chondrite found in 1887 in Russia (FMNH Me 1442, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA).Flickr
The Northwest Africa (NWA) 14139 Meteorite.
Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/2nEkaV6
NWA 14139 C3-Ungrouped (proposed CT3) Carbonaceous Chondrite
This whole stone is potentially a CT3 as it is a pristine member of the proposed CT Group. Here is the proposal to form a new CT Group and discussion.Flickr
The Murchison Meteorites fell on September 28, 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia.
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The Murchison Meteorites fell on September 28, 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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The Faucett Meteorite was found in Missouri, USA in 1966.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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Oriented meteorite found near Baker, California.
Vahe Martirosyan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/2fwtmtB
Los Angeles, UCLA, Meteorite Gallery, 2019.02.17 (23)
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A slice of the Allende Meteorite, observed to fall on February 8, 1969 in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr: flic.kr/p/9yD8wi
The Chantonnay Meteorite fell in France on August 5, 1812.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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The Flagg Meteorite was found in Texas, USA sometime before 1954.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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Plainview (1917) Meteorite was found in Texas, USA in 1917.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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A slice of the Allende Meteorite, observed to fall on February 8, 1969 in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2os2FJM
The face of Allende — an Ancient Meteorite
Allende is the most studied meteorite in the world. Thousands of scientific papers have been written about the meteorite and its components.Flickr
A fragment of the Hammadah al Hamra 346 (Ghadamis) Meteorite that was found in 2019 in Libya.
Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2nE1d4b
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All it's cracked up to be — the fresh fusion crust of a Ghadamis meteorite
This HaH 346 (aka Ghadamis) is my first meteorite with a fresh fusion crust showing differential heating from oriented entry.Flickr
The Wellman (c) Meteorite was found in 1964 in Texas, USA.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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The "Black Beauty" or Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 Meteorite.
Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2oqM8bZ
A whole Black Beauty from Mars
This as close to “unobtainium” as I have found on Earth. An exceptionally unusual shiny black meteorite find was recovered in 2011 in Morocco by Aziz Habibi (I bought it from him). Officially named NWA 7034, it was nicknamed “Black Beauty” by Dr.Flickr
The Talpa Meteorite was found in 1963 in Texas, USA.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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The Calliham Meteorite was found in 1958 in Texas, USA.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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A slice of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 6394 Meteorite.
Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/8zXHxK
Slice of the Sayh al Uhaymir (SaU) 001 Meteorite.
Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/8DdZcG
SaU 001 slice
This is a nice 34 gram polished slice of the SaU 001 L 4/5 chondrite discovered in Oman in 2000. Lots of interesting chondrules here! In a riker box.Flickr
The Lake Labyrinth Meteorite was found in 1924 in Australia.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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The Waka Meteorite was found in 1963 in Texas, USA.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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The Caroline Meteorite was found in Australia in 1941.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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The Gilgoin Meteorite was found in 1889 in Australia.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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A slice of the Allende Meteorite, observed to fall on February 8, 1969 in Chihuahua, Mexico.
James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A slice of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 869 Meteorite.
James St. John, via Flickr: flic.kr/p/oeC4S3
Ordinary chondrite (North West Africa 869 Meteorite) 1
Ordinary chondrite - North West Africa 869 Meteorite. (cut slice; ~7.7 centimeters across at its widest) Chondrites are the most common type of meteorites that fall to Earth.Flickr
"Portrait of James Sowerby (with the Wold Cottage Meteorite)" by Thomas Heaphy (1816).
Thomas Heaphy with courtesy to Mrs. Sowerby, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
The Aguas Zarcas Meteorite was observed to fall on April 23, 2019 in Costa Rica.
Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2ngXUkF
Made in Space: the A-T-G-C bases of our DNA! 🌎 ☄
A bombshell published in Nature today: All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites, providing further support to the hypothesis that life’s precursors arrived on Earth from abiotic origins in space.Flickr
Northwest Africa (NWA) 11054 Meteorite slice.
James St. John, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hzVCy8
Ordinary chondrite (NWA 11054 Meteorite, northwestern Africa)
Ordinary chondrite (North West Africa 11054 Meteorite) from the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. (cut & polished slice; ~6.1 centimeters across at its widest) Chondrites are the most common type of meteorites that fall to Earth.Flickr
The Coonana Meteorite was found in 1962 in Australia.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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A piece of the Henbury Iron Meteorite, found in central Australia.
Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons and Flickr: flic.kr/p/2ndqTvm
A Henbury Meteoritic Masterpiece
Michael Farmer’s described this 6.7 kg Henbury as “a masterpiece” and the Christies’ curator called it “the best lot in the sale.Flickr