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Jiddat al Harasis 348 A small (18.4 g), complete stone with no remaining fusion crust was recovered from the Jiddat al Harasis region of Oman on March 6, 2006, by Robert Ward. 2 Photos Details Location: Jiddat al Harasis, Oman 19°32'02"N, 55°07'13"E Classification: Lunar, Feldspathic Fragmental Breccia Witnessed: No [...]

Chelyabinsk The Chelyabinsk superbolide rocked the Ural region of Russia on February 15, 2013 at 3:20 UTC. Entering the atmosphere at 43,000 miles an hour the meteoroid penetrated to an altitude of 18 miles, exploding in an air burst with a force equal to 500 kg tons of TNT and producing a light brighter than [...]

Addison One of the two fragments of a meteorite that hit Alabama were found in or near Addison, Alabama, in Winston County. The two fragments, are from what is now provisionally called the Addison meteorite. Meteorites are named after the closest city to where they were found. The meteorite fragments came from a "boulder-sized meteor" [...]

Battle Mountain On August 22, 2012, at 11:17 PM, a large, slow-moving fireball was witnessed by residents of California, Nevada, and Idaho. Sonic booms were reported in Winnemucca and Battle Mountain, Nevada. The American Meteor Society received only 12 reports for this event (#1192), which is not surprising, considering the remote area where the bolide [...]

Tissint Only the 5th Mars meteorite witnessed to fall, Tissint fell on July 18, 2011 in Morocco. An invaluable asset for scientific research, this meteorite is currently helping to pave the way for future exploration in the search for organics on the red planet. Classified as a Shergottite, the meteorite contains isolated pockets of primitive [...]

Ash Creek A brilliant fireball and detonations were witnessed by many, and the former was captured on video by a news camera while filming participants running in the Austin marathon that Sunday morning. At first there was speculation by the media that the event was caused by debris entering the atmosphere after the accidental and [...]

Dohfar 1428 Dhofar 1428, a Lunar meteorite discovered by R. Ward on his first expedition in the Arabian peninsula in March of 2006. Originally weighing 213 grams, this anorthositic impact melt breccia consists of mingled light to dark grey plagioclase rich clasts, and white lithic clasts. Minor amounts of gabbros, troctolites, and ophitic/subophitic basalts were [...]

Isheyevo Isheyevo is a unique metal-rich carbonaceous chondrite. The Isheyevo meteorite was classified as a Bencubbin-like meteorite. The Isheyevo meteorite weighing 16 kg, was discovered in October 2003 in Bashkortostan (Russia), close to the Isheyevo village. The stone was found by a tractor driver in a field during harvest carrying. A small piece of the [...]

Gujba The only witnessed fall Bencubbinite, Gujba fell on April 3, 1984 in Nigeria. The most stunning of this rare and primitive class of meteorite, Gujba is a favorite of Ward, making this 995.9 gram end cut indispensable to the Ward collection. This meteorite is classified as a Bencubbinite, CBa, a sub-group of the carbonaceous [...]

Bondoc The story behind the recovery of the Bondoc meteorite is a testament to perseverance. Dr. H. H. Nininger was in Asia seeking tektites when he came across a sample of the Bondoc meteorite, located on the Bondoc Peninsula of Luzon Island. The process of attaining the necessary permissions, locating the specimen, extracting and finally [...]