Chainpur vs Peekskill

Chainpur is an LL3.4 ordinary chondrite meteorite that fell in India in 1907. Its low petrologic type indicates that it experienced relatively little thermal metamorphism on its parent body, allowing many chondrules and other early solar-system materials to remain distinct. Researchers study it as an unequilibrated ordinary chondrite, particularly for evidence about primitive solids, mineral chemi...

Peekskill is an H6 ordinary chondrite meteorite that fell over the eastern United States on October 9, 1992. Its luminous atmospheric passage was recorded on numerous amateur videos during high school football games, giving researchers unusually extensive documentation of its trajectory. A fragment weighing about 12 kilograms struck the trunk of a parked Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York, le...