Bjurbole, Fall - H 4

Please ask for availibility (small to large fragments for very fair price) : mars@man.li 

Djoumine / Tunisia, Fall - H 5-6

El Hammami - H5  Fall In autumn 1997 maroocan nomads shipped a fragment of a meteorite that they claimed they would have seen falling a meteorite on 10th Aug. 1997 . E.Thompson , Thompson travelled with them in November of the same year to Mauritania and collected six fresh-looking stones totalling about 200 kg (indiv. masses of 80, 51, 30, 26, 8, and 4 kg) at the base of the El Hammami Mountains in Mauritania

LL6 , brecc.  - Kilabo, Nigeria Fall

fresh fragments of a fresh fall, which

fell same day and almost same time as the Thuathe H4 Chondrite in Lesotho July 21, 2002

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ultra fresh crusted fragments 3g, 11g, 19g, 134g @$8.70/gr

Fall: June 20, 1998 17:25 hrs Turkmenistan Chondrite . Fragments
recovered soon after the fall.

$5/gr

A single meteorite of appr. 110kg was seen falling by a seven-year-old Tuareg boy .

Scheibe 38.13g 105x34mm max €85

Scheibe 8.3g €22

0,11g slice 8x12mm $28

Ourique, Portugal - H4 - Fall
0,8g 12x12x5mm fragment $12
0.9g 12x11x6mm fragment $14
4,1g 18x18x8mm fragment $36

Oued el Hadjar, Morocco, Djebel Bani - LL6

Nomads heard a detonation and saw a 1215.5 g stone fall near their tent. It is said that the stone was divided into many pieces and sacrified on an altar 2 weeks later during a wedding ceremony. More pieces have been found later by another team in that area. Mineralogy and classification ( A. Sexton, OU): olivine Fa30.0; pyroxene, Fs22.0; shock stage, S2; W0/1

Loud whistles have been heard and smoky trails of lights were seen by locals in the sky near the town Portales, New Mexico; 63 meteorites have been collected, with a total of 75kg; the largest weighing 17.0kg. A 530g fragment went through the roof of Gayle Newberry's barn It is an  H6 chondrite showing an abnormal high number of massive, metal-rich shock veins; several pieces are even dominated by the metal, which displays a fine Widmanstätten structure on etched surfaces (average bandwidth 0.32 mm)

Park Forest, Chicago

52.55g, 55x35x32mm, top fresh individual, 90%crust, $35/g
16.76g, 80%crust, top fresh 30x28x24mm $35/g
20.29g, 35x28x18mm, 55%crust, oriented $36/g

top quality, very fresh:

found within hours of the fall!  

Bug Boxes: $ 8/pce.mars@mars.li 

Thuathe H4 Chondrite in Lesotho, July 21, 2002

fell same day and almost same time as the Kilabo, Nigeria Fall

ultra fresh crusted individuals 8g, 9g, 118g @$7/gr

ZAG, Western Sahara - H3-6

Fall 4th or 5th of August 1998
Brecciated chondrite containing extraterrestrial water within blue halite crystals.

It is said that nomads heard a detonation and saw a  meteorite fall on a mountain in the vicinity of Zag, Morocco. More than 176 kg have been recovered and sold by local people to dealers.

Classification and mineralogy (A. Bischoff and D. Weber, Münster): a regolith breccia (pers. comm., R. Wieler, ETH); olivine, Fa1.6–30.0, with peak at Fa19; pyroxene, Fs3.3–26.6 ; shock stage, S3, W0/1.

thin nice slice 28g $64

thin nice slice 56g $111