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NWA 7034, nicknamed "Black Beauty," is a Martian meteorite discovered in Northwest Africa and announced to science in the early 2010s. It is a basaltic regolith breccia composed of rock fragments from different periods of Martian history, with some mineral grains dating to about 4.4 billion years ag...
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Black Beauty, ancient Martian crust, exceptional breccia record, intense research and collector prestige.
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Canyon Diablo is the name given to iron meteorite fragments associated with Meteor Crater, also called Barringer Crater, in Arizona. The impact occurred roughly 50,000 years ago and dispersed fragments of an IAB complex iron meteorite around the crater, many containing iron-nickel metal, sulfides, a...
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Barringer Crater association, Patterson age work, abundant research value, iconic American iron meteorite.
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Hoba is an iron meteorite found on a farm near Grootfontein, Namibia, in 1920. With an estimated mass of about 60 tonnes, it is the largest known intact meteorite and the largest naturally occurring mass of iron found near Earth's surface. Its great weight has prevented relocation, so it remains at...
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World's largest intact meteorite, iconic public reputation, less chemically singular than top scientific samples.
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Elephant Moraine A79001, commonly abbreviated EETA79001, is a Martian shergottite discovered in Antarctica in 1979. Glassy impact-melt inclusions within it contain gases whose elemental and isotopic composition closely matches measurements of the Martian atmosphere made by the Viking landers. That c...
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Trapped Martian atmosphere evidence, foundational SNC proof, major Antarctic Martian meteorite.
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Krasnojarsk is a pallasite meteorite discovered in Siberia and first examined scientifically after specimens reached Peter Simon Pallas in the eighteenth century. Its mixture of olivine crystals and iron-nickel metal became the model for the meteorite class later named pallasites. Ernst Chladni cite...
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Historic Pallas iron, central to proving extraterrestrial origin, outstanding classification importance.
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ALH 81005 is a meteorite found in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica in 1982 and subsequently identified as material ejected from the Moon. It is an anorthositic regolith breccia composed of fragments derived largely from the lunar highlands, mixed and consolidated by impacts. Its recognition as t...
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First meteorite recognized as lunar, historic classification breakthrough, high scientific importance.
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The Willamette Meteorite is an iron meteorite found in Oregon and classified as a type IIIAB iron. Weighing about 15.5 metric tonnes, it is the largest meteorite discovered in the United States and is displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Its deeply pitted surface was shap...
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Largest U.S. meteorite, major display specimen, culturally important though less scientifically unique.
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Esquel is a main-group pallasite meteorite found in Chubut Province, Argentina. The recovered mass weighed approximately 755 kilograms and consists of translucent olivine crystals embedded in an iron-nickel matrix. Its unusually large, clear crystals make polished slices visually distinctive, while...
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Premier aesthetic pallasite, large gemmy olivines, exceptional collector reputation and display value.
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Lafayette is a nakhlite, a type of igneous meteorite identified as originating on Mars. It was recognized in the collection of Purdue University in Indiana by 1931, although the circumstances and date of its arrival on Earth remain uncertain. Studies of alteration minerals within it, including clay...
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Classic nakhlite with alteration minerals, important Mars water evidence, strong historical reputation.
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Fukang is a pallasite meteorite found near Fukang in China's Xinjiang region around 2000. Its cut surfaces reveal large, translucent olivine crystals embedded in a metallic matrix composed chiefly of iron and nickel, the characteristic structure of pallasites. The original mass was reported at appro...
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Highly prized pallasite aesthetics, gemmy olivine, strong collector fame, scientific importance moderate.
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Wabar is an iron meteorite and associated impact site in the Rub' al Khali desert of Saudi Arabia. The event produced several craters and scattered iron fragments, impact glass, and other material formed under extreme heat and pressure. Explorer Harry St John Philby reached and described the site in...
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Impact crater field and desert exploration fame, visually distinctive impactites, strong historical reputation.
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Gibeon is an iron meteorite discovered in Namibia, where fragments were dispersed across a large strewn field before their extraterrestrial origin was recognized. Classified as a IVA fine octahedrite, it displays intersecting bands of iron-nickel minerals known as a Widmanstatten pattern when a poli...
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Famous iron with excellent Widmanstatten patterns, broad collector reputation, moderate unique science.
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Agpalilik is a large iron meteorite belonging to the Cape York meteorite group, whose fragments were found around Cape York in northwestern Greenland. Vagn F. Buchwald discovered the approximately 20-tonne mass near Savissivik in 1963, and it was later transported to Copenhagen for study and display...
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Huge Cape York fragment, major mass and museum significance, strong historical association.
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Mundrabilla is an iron meteorite discovered on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia in 1911. Numerous masses have since been recovered from the region, including specimens weighing several tonnes, and the name is associated with an unusually extensive meteorite strewn field. Classified as an ung...
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Huge Australian iron, large main masses, important find, less iconic than Hoba or Sikhote-Alin.
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Imilac is a main-group pallasite meteorite found in Chile's Atacama Desert. Its cut sections commonly reveal olivine crystals enclosed by an iron-nickel metal matrix, with some sufficiently translucent to transmit light through thin slices. The combination of conspicuous crystals, metallic structure...
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Classic Atacama pallasite, attractive slices, widely collected, solid but not uniquely pivotal.
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Winona is a meteorite found near Winona, Arizona, and is the type specimen of the winonaites, a group of primitive achondrites. Winonaites contain silicate minerals mixed with metal and sulfide and show evidence of heating, metamorphism, and partial melting on their parent asteroid. Their mineralogy...
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Type winonaite, defines rare primitive achondrite group, strong classification value.
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Bunburra Rockhole is a basaltic achondrite meteorite that fell in Western Australia in 2007 and was recovered through observations made by the Desert Fireball Network. Photographic records of its fireball allowed researchers to calculate its atmospheric trajectory and pre-impact orbit, making it the...
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Instrumentally recovered anomalous basaltic achondrite, strong orbit-link and parent-body significance.
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Northwest Africa 5000, commonly abbreviated NWA 5000, is a lunar meteorite found in Morocco in 2007. The original stone weighed about 11.5 kilograms and consists of feldspathic breccia, a rock assembled from fragments produced by impacts on the Moon's anorthosite-rich crust. Its lunar origin is esta...
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Large lunar feldspathic breccia, major collector prestige, significant available lunar mass.
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Seymchan is a meteorite discovered in Magadan Oblast in northeastern Russia in 1967. The first recovered masses were dominated by iron-nickel metal, but later finds contained substantial olivine-rich regions, leading to its recognition as a pallasite with both metal-rich and crystal-rich lithologies...
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Iron-pallasite transition, attractive olivine zones, notable Russian find with strong collector interest.
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Springwater is a main-group pallasite meteorite found in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1904. It consists of unusually large, gem-quality olivine crystals embedded in an iron-nickel matrix, a structure characteristic of pallasites. Its translucent crystals and contrasting metal make prepared slices useful...
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Large Canadian pallasite with gem-quality olivine, strong collector reputation, moderate broader fame.
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Brachina is a meteorite found in South Australia in 1974 and is the type specimen of the brachinites, a group of primitive achondrites. It is composed predominantly of olivine, accompanied by smaller amounts of pyroxene, plagioclase, chromite, metal, and sulfide. Its texture and chemistry record ext...
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Type brachinite, defines olivine-rich achondrite group, important but niche.
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Vaca Muerta is a mesosiderite meteorite discovered in the Atacama Desert of Chile in the nineteenth century. Mesosiderites are stony-iron meteorites made from brecciated silicate rock mixed with iron-nickel metal, evidence of impact-driven disruption and reassembly on a differentiated asteroid. Thou...
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Very large mesosiderite find, significant rare-class material, strong specialist importance.
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NWA 2737 is a Martian meteorite found in Northwest Africa in 2000 and classified as a chassignite, a rare subgroup of the SNC meteorites. It consists chiefly of olivine-rich dunite and records igneous processes within Mars. Its unusual mineralogy makes it useful to researchers studying the compositi...
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Rare Martian chassignite, expands tiny class, strong specialist value despite limited public fame.
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Brenham is a main-group pallasite meteorite discovered in Kansas, where numerous masses have been recovered from a broad strewn field. Cut and polished specimens reveal yellow-green olivine crystals enclosed within an iron-nickel matrix, the characteristic structure of a pallasite. Its substantial r...
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Classic pallasite, widely distributed and attractive, good reputation though less elite than Esquel or Fukang.
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Yamato 000593 is a Martian meteorite recovered in Antarctica's Yamato Mountains and classified as a nakhlite, one of the recognized groups within the SNC meteorites. Its mass of about 13.7 kilograms makes it a substantial recovered specimen of Martian rock. Like other nakhlites, it is studied for ev...
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Large Antarctic nakhlite, significant Martian alteration sample, strong specialist value.
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Efremovka is a reduced CV3 carbonaceous chondrite found in Kazakhstan in 1962. It contains well-preserved chondrules and calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions, among the earliest solids known to have formed in the Solar System, as well as presolar grains inherited from material predating it. These compon...
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Well-preserved CV3 with CAIs and presolar grains, important but not widely famous.
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Millbillillie is a eucrite meteorite associated with a witnessed fireball over Western Australia in October 1960, although stones were recovered years later. Eucrites are basaltic achondrites within the howardite-eucrite-diogenite group and are generally linked to the crust of asteroid 4 Vesta. Mill...
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Large Australian eucrite fall, attractive black stones, strong collector and research presence.
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Leoville is a CV3 carbonaceous chondrite found in Kansas and assigned to the reduced subgroup of CV meteorites. It contains chondrules, calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions, metal, and fine-grained matrix that retain evidence of early Solar System processes. Its comparatively limited thermal and aqueous...
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Reduced CV benchmark with preserved CAIs, strong research use, lower public profile.
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Bacubirito is a large iron meteorite found near Bacubirito in Sinaloa, Mexico, during the nineteenth century. The main mass weighs roughly 19 to 22 metric tonnes, with the precise figure depending on the measurement cited, and remains a prominent natural-history object in Mexico. It is classified as...
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One of the largest known irons, Mexican landmark, strong mass fame but modest scientific distinctiveness.
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Pontlyfni is a meteorite that fell near the village of Pontlyfni in Gwynedd, Wales, in 1931. It is classified as a winonaite, a rare type of primitive achondrite whose mineralogy records substantial heating and recrystallization without the complete differentiation seen in many other achondrites. It...
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Rare witnessed winonaite fall, high class significance despite small broader fame.
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