Meteorite Falls - Chondrites

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State/Prov/County:McLennan County, TX Date:15-Feb- 2009, fell 1 Latitude:31°48.3'N Longitude:97°00.6'W Mass (g):9500 Pieces:40+ Class:L6 Shock stage:S3 Weathering grade:W0 Fayalite (mol%):24.2 ±0.2 Ferrosilite (mol%):20.5 ±0.7 Wollastonite (mol%):1.6 ±0.2 Magnetic suscept.:4.91 Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA Type spec mass (g):30.6 Type spec location:UCLA

Fall 12-Oct-2006

Bjurbole, Fall - H 4

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

Kilabo-322g.jpg

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

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, $60/g sold
20.29g, 35x28x18mm, 55%crust, oriented $36/g

(Note: I also have a larger complete "car crasher" individual with all (photo and authenticity) documentations of the car impact incident

Thuathe H4 Chondrite in Lesotho, July 21, 2002

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

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 $68