Back in Fall 2024, I was on the porch at my girlfriends apartment around 23:00. She lived in a remote area so there was no other cars in the streets and we both saw a meteorite falling from the sky. It was green and white, all fragmented but it made this sound of a crushed soda can or crushed metal. It was weird. I saw other meteorites of different colours, the more special one was yellow.

Have a few more acquisitions since these photos were taken but this is most of my collection. Trying to build a type set. Almost there.

Thuathe
Classified as H5 Ordinary Chondrite
Total Known Mass is at 45.3 kg
Fell on July 21, 2002 at around 13:49 GMT
Lunar and Planetary Institute link: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=23976

My rough plan was to go to Tuscon next year, find a dealer I feel like I can trust, and try to buy an unclassified stone from them, where they have a decent idea what it's likely to be. I'm fine with accepting risk, but I'm not really looking for a blind box.

I'm thinking something in the 200-400g range, ideally something a bit more interesting than an L6 or H5 chondrite, but I'm not super picky beyond that. I want it to present well in a collection, but I'm not trying to find anything exceptional.

I just want the experience of getting a stone classified with my name on metbull, without being a total waste of someone's time. It's largely a vanity project, so it would be neat to get my name in metbull, and own the whole mass except for the testing sample. If for some reason it was significant, that would make me more likely to want to share, not less.

Realistically, how much do I need to know about the location of the find, original finder, the dealers in between us, etc.? Do I need pictures of it in the ground w/gps? Is this something I can/should do as a non-professional/non-academic? What else do I need to know/have/do? Is this even a reasonable idea?

تبين أن الكويكب الذي تسبب في انقراض الديناصورات قبل 66 مليون سنة هو من نوع "كوندريت" من نوع CO – وهو أحد أنواع الصخور الكونية الأكثر ندرة وبدائية. ونُشرت الدراسة في مجلة "Science Advances".

فحص الباحثون نظائر النيكل في طبقة الطين الرقيقة التي تشكلت بعد اصطدام "إمباكتور تشيكشولوف". تشير النتائج إلى أنه تشكل في الجزء الخارجي من النظام الشمسي – خارج مدار كوكب المشتري أو في حزام الكويكبات الخارجي.

اصطدم الكويكب، الذي يبلغ قطره 10-15 كيلومترًا، بالأرض بسرعة تبلغ حوالي 64 ألف كيلومتر في الساعة. يشير تركيبه الذي يحتوي على كمية قليلة من الكبريت إلى أن الجزء الأكبر من الانقراض كان ناتجًا عن الغبار الذي ارتفع إلى الغلاف الجوي.

⚡️New Study: Scientists identify the composition of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs

A new study published in Science Advances has found that the asteroid responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a CO carbonaceous chondrite—one of the rarest and most primitive types of meteorites.

Researchers analyzed nickel isotopes in the thin clay layer formed after the Chicxulub impact. Their findings suggest the asteroid originated in the outer Solar System, beyond Jupiter's orbit or within the outer asteroid belt.

The asteroid, estimated to have measured 10–15 kilometers (6–9 miles) in diameter, struck Earth at roughly 64,000 km/h (40,000 mph). Its relatively low sulfur content indicates that the mass extinction was driven primarily by the enormous amounts of dust blasted into the atmosphere, rather than sulfur-rich emissions.

Newly classified pallasite, found in Chad, Northeast Africa in 2026.

Meteoritical Bulletin:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.cfm?code=87221

Brenham
Pallasite (PMG-an)
First pieces and fragments found in 1882
Ex-Dipper Co. piece
Specimen mass is 4.88 gr.
TKW of Brenham is approximately 4,300 kg.

My micarta wedding ring finally broke after years of use, so I'm looking for a new one. I saw this ring and thought it was really interesting, but I don't know much about authenticity or what to look for. What do you all think? Is it the real deal?

See also: The publication in Science Advances

I marked the path it followed and the circle represents about where it went out

This one took over a year to get back. Pretty great though. I just sliced and prepared it today. It’s actually my first time seeing the inside of this because the sample I sent in was a 22g individual 🤣

Just bought my first fossil meteorite after a visit to the local planetarium! I didn’t know it could be relatively accessible so feeling excited about the idea of actually starting to collect those!

3 Minutes To Impact

Bought it back in 2020 from the awesome Eric Twelker on meteoritemarket.com

I found this crater-like geologic feature in easter Québec, no name, no mention of it anywhere that I could find, do anyone know if its has a name or something?

Made an educational video on stabilizing Irons with the alkaline bath method, or specifically, if you’re using this method, how to test for chlorides.

I bought this in Heidelberg Germany in a small fossil and mineral store and wanted to know what you guys thought if it is authentic or not. Thanks.

Classified as an unbrecciated eucrite; fell on July 9, 2014 at around 21:30 local time; weathering stage is W0 (fresh/pristine) and shock stage is low.
As per the Meteoritical Society:
History: (H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane, A. Aaronson, M. Aoudjehane, A. Bouferra, A. Bouragaa) On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 around 9:30 pm, residents of Tirhert, Foum El Hisn, Douar Imougadir and nearby villages in southern Morocco, witnessed an intense fireball moving horizontally in a NW to SE direction and lasting about 4 s, shortly followed by multiple sonic booms. The fireball was seen by people from cities and villages more than 220 km around the fall site near Tirhert. Immediately following the fireball event the mayor and the authorities of the area organized a field search with police to check for possible security problems. The first meteorites were recovered the following day close to the road between Foum El Hisn and Assa. Thousands of people moved to the site from surrounding cities and villages to search, but many soon left because of the difficulties of searching during the hot 50°C daytime temperatures. The positions of many of the pieces were recorded from eyewitness testimonials, forming a roughly 6 × 3 km strewnfield trending NW to SE. The largest recorded mass around 1300 g was collected close to Tirhert at the coordinates listed for this entry. Recovered pieces weighed from 1 to 1300 g, with an estimated total mass of 8 to 10 kg. Most pieces are covered by a very shiny, black fusion crust.

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