Featured Meteorites

A Sikhote-Alin Meteorite Discovery: The Missing Link

Posted on 2011/03/26 by geoking

The February, 1947 fall of the Sikhote-Alin iron in a remote part of eastern Siberia was, by far, the largest recorded meteorite event in history. While Campo del Cielo (Argentina), Muonionalusta (Sweden), and Gibeon (Namibia) may possibly have deposited more meteorites in terms of sheer tonnage, they all took place in prehistoric times. If those &hellip Continue reading »

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The Millbillillie Meteorite: Part of the Asteroid Vesta?

Posted on 2011/03/23 by geoking

The Millbillillie eucrite belongs to one of the rarest meteorite types. It is part of the HED group, which also includes howardites and diogenites. Eucrites are achondrites, meaning “not chondrites,” so they are lacking in chondrules—the small, spherical, pre-solar grains that give the common chondrites their name. Millbillillie meteorites are volcanic rock from other worlds, &hellip Continue reading »

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The Famous Allison Allende Meteorite, A Rare Carbonaceous Chondrite, Finds A New Home

Posted on 2009/08/24 by geoking

In 1969, five year-old Vicki Allison was living with her American missionary parents in an old adobe home in Chihuahua, Mexico, on the eastern edge of the Sierra Madre mountains. Around 1 am on the morning of February 8, the family was awakened by a bright light and shaking. The shutters flew open and the &hellip Continue reading »

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