Bustee vs Norton County

Bustee is an aubrite meteorite that fell in northern India in 1852. Aubrites are rare, highly reduced achondrites composed predominantly of enstatite, with mineral chemistry indicating formation under conditions containing very little oxygen. As a documented nineteenth-century fall, Bustee provides researchers with material for investigating enstatite-rich parent bodies and the early differentiati...

Norton County is an aubrite meteorite that fell in 1948 near the Kansas and Nebraska border in the United States. Its recovered material totals more than one metric ton, making it the largest known aubrite by recovered mass. Aubrites are rare, enstatite rich achondrites formed through igneous processes on a differentiated parent body, so the fall is studied by researchers investigating early plane...