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A fragment of the Canyon Diablo Iron Meteorites, pieces of the object that created Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA.
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Endcut of the Chwichiya 002 Meteorite that was found in Western Sahara on June 10, 2018.
Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2nDWEaM
Endcut of Chwichiya 002, a rare C3.00-ungrouped, and potentially CT3 as it is a member of the recently proposed CT Group
TLDR; it's a pristine time capsule from before the Earth formed... and with embedded pre-solar grains (remnants of a solar system older than ours by a few billion years that went supernova).Flickr
A fragment of the New Concord Meteorite that fell on May 1, 1860 in Ohio, USA.
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The Goose Lake Iron Meteorite was found on October 13, 1938 near Goose Lake, USA.
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The Mauerkirchen Meteorite fell on November 20, 1768 in Austria.
Attribution: © Raimond Spekking.
The Ahnighito fragment of the Cape York Meteorites at the American Museum of Natural History (~1910s).
Newberry, Public Domain via Wikimedia. Color edits.
The Youndegin Iron Meteorite was found in 1884 in Australia.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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Meteorite fragment (not labelled/numbered) that was found in Hammadah al Hambra, Libya.
Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Meteorite fragment (not labelled/numbered) that was found in Hammadah al Hambra, Libya.
Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The first mass of the Bencubbin Meteorite was found in 1930 in Australia.
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The "Agpalilik" fragment of the Cape York Meteorite, found in Greenland by Peary in 1894.
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Meteorite MAC 88105,125 was found in Antarctica in 1988.
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A slice of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 5717 Meteorite.
Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/2kFTZ21
NWA 5717 — Dual Lithologies of Primordial Matter Never Seen Before
NWA 5717 contains primordial matter never before seen and it contains the pristine constituents of the solid planets.Flickr
The Molong Meteorite was found in 1912 in Australia.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
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A sliced fragment of a Rainbow Meteorite; found in 1994 in Australia.
Photographer: Bernard Day, Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International). Color edits.
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The Nakhla Meteorite fell on June 28, 1911 in Beheira Governorate, Egypt.
the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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: flic.kr/p/2iUXxmy
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.Flickr
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: flic.kr/p/pqceZ
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: flic.kr/p/2kFjV15
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.Flickr
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.
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 flic.kr/p/2naZzkd
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.Flickr
A slice of the Vigarano Meteorite that fell in Italy on January 22, 1910.
the paleobear, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Northwest Africa 13203 Meteorite with oriented regmaglypts.
Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2jAoGVQ
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.Flickr
The Tenham Meteorite was found in Queensland, Australia in 1879.
the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Jbilet Winselwan Meteorite was found in June 2013 in Western Sahara.
MJCato, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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.
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.
The Diepenveen Meteorite fell on October 27, 1873 in Netherlands.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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.
"Meteorolites" by James Sowerby (1856).
1. Wold Cottage, Yorkshire
2. High Possil, Scotland
3. Tipperary, Ireland
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