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Allende

The Allende meteorite is a CV3 carbonaceous chondrite that fell over the Mexican state of Chihuahua in February 1969. It...

Mexico CV3 Carbonaceous Chondrite 1969 Fall

9.2 Excellent

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Murchison

The Murchison meteorite is a carbonaceous chondrite that fell near Murchison in Victoria, Australia, in 1969. Classified...

Australia Amino Acids Carbonaceous Chondrite 1969 Fall

9.2 Excellent

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Hoba

Hoba is an iron meteorite found on a farm near Grootfontein, Namibia, in 1920. With an estimated mass of about 60 tonnes...

Find Iron Namibia Largest Known

9.2 Excellent

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ALH84001

ALH 84001 is a roughly 4.1-billion-year-old Martian orthopyroxenite meteorite found in Antarctica's Allan Hills in 1984....

Antarctica Martian Orthopyroxenite Life Debate

9.2 Excellent

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Sikhote-Alin

Sikhote-Alin is a IIAB iron meteorite that broke apart over the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in the Russian Far East on 12 Feb...

Russia Iron Iiab 1947 Fall

9.2 Excellent

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Cape York

Cape York is a group of chemically related IIIAB iron meteorite masses found in northwestern Greenland and derived from...

Iron Greenland Inuit Iiiab

9.2 Excellent

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Canyon Diablo

Canyon Diablo is the name given to iron meteorite fragments associated with Meteor Crater, also called Barringer Crater,...

Arizona Find Iron Iab

9.2 Excellent

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Tagish Lake

Tagish Lake is a carbon-rich meteorite that fell over northwestern British Columbia, Canada, on 18 January 2000, scatter...

Canada Pristine Carbonaceous Chondrite C2 Ungrouped

9.2 Excellent

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Tissint

Tissint is a Martian shergottite whose fall was witnessed in southern Morocco in July 2011, with fragments recovered fro...

Morocco Martian Snc Shergottite

9.2 Excellent

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Orgueil

Orgueil is a CI1 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that fell near Orgueil in southern France on 14 May 1864. CI chondrite...

France Primitive Carbonaceous Chondrite CI1

9.2 Excellent

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Ivuna

Ivuna is a CI1 carbonaceous chondrite that fell near Ivuna, Tanzania, in 1938. CI meteorites are rare, chemically primit...

Primitive Tanzania Carbonaceous Chondrite CI1

9.2 Excellent

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Aguas Zarcas

Aguas Zarcas is a CM2 carbonaceous chondrite that fell over Costa Rica on 23 April 2019. Residents and researchers recov...

Costa Rica Carbonaceous Chondrite CM2 2019 Fall

9.2 Excellent

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Semarkona

Semarkona is an LL3.00 ordinary chondrite that fell near Semarkona, India, in 1940. Its minerals experienced exceptional...

India Chondrite LL3 1940 Fall

9.2 Excellent

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L'Aigle

L'Aigle is an L6 ordinary chondrite that fell near the town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France, on 26 April 1803. Thousands...

France Chondrite L6 1803 Fall

9.2 Excellent

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NWA 7034

NWA 7034, nicknamed "Black Beauty," is a Martian meteorite discovered in Northwest Africa and announced to science in th...

Find Martian Basaltic Breccia Northwest Africa

9.2 Excellent

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EETA79001

Elephant Moraine A79001, commonly abbreviated EETA79001, is a Martian shergottite discovered in Antarctica in 1979. Glas...

Find Antarctica Martian Snc

9.1 Excellent

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Kapoeta

Kapoeta is a howardite meteorite that fell in 1942 near Kapoeta, in the territory now belonging to South Sudan. Howardit...

Sudan Hed Group Vestan Howardite

8.5 Great

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Khor Temiki

Khor Temiki is an aubrite meteorite that fell in Sudan in 1944, making it one of the few observed African aubrite falls....

Sudan Achondrite Aubrite Enstatite Rich

7.4 Good

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Noblesville

An H chondrite that fell in Hamilton County, Indiana, USA in 1991, witnessed by observers and notable for yielding a you...

Indiana Chondrite Witnessed H4

7.2 Good

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Glatton

Glatton is an ordinary chondrite meteorite that fell near Glatton in Cambridgeshire, England, in 1991. Classified as an...

England Chondrite Witnessed L5

7.0 Good