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Allende

Fragments of the Allende meteorite fell across Chihuahua, Mexico, in February 1969, providing scientists with a substant...

Mexico CV3 Carbonaceous Chondrite 1969 Fall

9.20 Excellent

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Murchison

After falling near Murchison in Victoria, Australia, in 1969, the Murchison meteorite became an important source of evid...

Australia Amino Acids Carbonaceous Chondrite 1969 Fall

9.20 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

9.20 Excellent

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ALH84001

Recovered in Antarctica's Allan Hills in 1984, ALH 84001 is a Martian meteorite made largely of orthopyroxene, giving it...

Antarctica Martian Orthopyroxenite Life Debate

9.20 Excellent

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Sikhote-Alin

A brilliant daylight fireball over the Russian Far East on 12 February 1947 marked the fall of Sikhote-Alin, a IIAB iron...

Russia Iron Iiab 1947 Fall

9.20 Excellent

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Cape York

The Cape York meteorites are chemically related IIIAB iron masses from a prehistoric fall in northwestern Greenland. The...

Iron Greenland Inuit Iiiab

9.20 Excellent

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Canyon Diablo

Fragments found around Arizona's Meteor Crater, also called Barringer Crater, are known collectively as Canyon Diablo. T...

Arizona Find Iron Iab

9.20 Excellent

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Tagish Lake

On 18 January 2000, the Tagish Lake meteorite fell over northwestern British Columbia, Canada, leaving fragments on the...

Canada Pristine Carbonaceous Chondrite C2 Ungrouped

9.20 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

9.20 Excellent

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Almahata Sitta

Almahata Sitta is the collective name for meteorite fragments recovered in Sudan after asteroid 2008 TC3 entered Earth's...

Sudan Ureilite Polymict 2008 Fall Asteroid 2008tc3

9.20 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

9.20 Excellent

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Estherville

Estherville is a mesosiderite meteorite that fell in Emmet County, Iowa, in 1879, producing a witnessed shower and a rec...

Iowa 1879 Fall Mesosiderite Stony Iron

8.45 Great

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Vaca Muerta

Vaca Muerta is a mesosiderite meteorite discovered in the Atacama Desert of Chile in the nineteenth century. Mesosiderit...

Find Chile Mesosiderite Stony Iron

8.20 Great

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Kaba

Kaba is a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that fell near Kaba, in present-day Hungary, in 1857. It is classified as a C...

Oxidized Hungary CV3 Carbonaceous Chondrite

8.00 Great

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Lowicz

Lowicz is a rare mesosiderite meteorite that fell in Łowicz County, Poland, in 1935, producing several fragments with a...

Poland Mesosiderite Stony Iron Metal Silicate

7.35 Good

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Veramin

Veramin is a mesosiderite meteorite, a class of stony-iron meteorite composed of a brecciated mixture of silicate minera...

Find Iran Mesosiderite Stony Iron

7.15 Good

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Hainholz

Hainholz is a named meteorite from Germany classified as a mesosiderite, a relatively uncommon type of stony-iron meteor...

Germany Find Mesosiderite Stony Iron

6.95 Fair

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Pinnaroo

Pallasite stony-iron meteorite found near Pinnaroo, South Australia, one of Australia's rare recovered specimens showing...

Australia Find Mesosiderite Stony Iron

6.95 Fair

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Patwar

Patwar is an official meteorite name for a witnessed stony-iron meteorite that fell in 1935 in what is now Bangladesh. T...

India Find Mesosiderite Stony Iron

6.90 Fair

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Emery

L6 ordinary chondrite found in Emery County, Utah, USA, recovered as a single stone from the arid terrain of the Colorad...

Utah Find Mesosiderite Stony Iron

6.35 Fair