Sweden
In 1869 - a small shower of stones fell near Uppsala, Sweden ranging in size from a few grams up to 1.8 kilograms
Date: 11/23/2009
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Uppsala, Sweden
In Hessle near Uppsala - one stone missed a man by only a few meters making this a witnessed fall
Date: 11/23/2009
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1869 - Hessle - fragment
Our small fragment of the 20 kilograms that has been recovered of this historic fall is classified as an H5 chondrite
Date: 11/23/2009
Views: 1941
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1870 - Ibbenbüren - Germany
A two and one-half pound stone fell on June 17, 1870 creating a small two and one-half foot deep crater
Date: 03/25/2009
Views: 1915
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Ibbenbüren
Another great place for a meteorite to park - the luscious countyside of Germany - now with energy producing windmills!
Date: 03/25/2009
Views: 1959
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1870 - Ibbenbüren fragment
This small sample is greyish white and it does not show any metallic iron - it has a nice yellow crystalline look - classified as a Diogenite
Date: 03/25/2009
Views: 1834
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1821 - Juvinas - France
This meteorite obviously had the right idea about a beautiful place to make a landing - it fell on June 15, 1821 at 3:00 pm near the village of Libonnes
Date: 03/25/2009
Views: 1906
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1821 - Juvinas - Top View
The first time I looked at this up close I thought I had picked up one of my shergottite meteorite samples by mistake - but it is really an achondrite - eucrite (AEUC)
Date: 01/01/2000
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Juvinas - Bottom View
A great looking sample of a well preserved meteorite - even more amazing is that only a single stone of 91 kilograms fell - almost half of Juvinas is lost and most of the rest is in the Paris Natural History Museum - classified as a EUC member
Date: 01/01/2000
Views: 1885
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Krasnoyarskiy kray in Russia
In 1749, about 145 miles south of Krasnojarsk, a meteorite was found that weighed about 700 kilograms - it was seen by Peter Simon Pallas in 1772 and then transported to Krasnojarsk
Date: 07/10/2009
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Krasnojarsk Meteorite at the Museum of Natural History in New York
The Krasnojarsk Meteorite is considered the first pallasite ever studied and the first meteorite ever etched
Date: 07/10/2009
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1749 - Krasnoyarsk - Fragment
Our tiny fragment has been classified as a pallasite belonging to the main chemical group - but with anomalous properties
Date: 07/10/2009
Views: 1878
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Loir-et-Cher, France
The Lancé meteorite was witnessed to fall on July 23, 1872 in Vendome, Loir-et-Cher, France
Date: 03/25/2009
Views: 2006
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Lancé Meteorite
A very early photo of the main mass!
Date: 03/25/2009
Views: 1921
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1872 - Lancé - fragment
Our small slice is classified as a rare carbonaceous chondrite and as a C03.4
Date: 01/01/2000
Views: 1939
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Loire Valley
The French countryside is full of old and historic castles
Date: 09/24/2010
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Chateau d'Amboise
A great tourist attraction to stop and visit if you are ever hunting meteorites in France!
Date: 09/24/2010
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Lancé - .197 grams
We recently obtained this bigger piece of this historical meteorite - it is big enough to show the rich interior and various inclusions
Date: 09/24/2010
Views: 1794
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Oberösterreich, Austria
On November 20, 1768 a 19 kilogram meteorite landed in Oberösterreich, Austria near the little village of Mauerkirchen
Date: 09/25/2009
Views: 1883
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1768 - Woodcut of the Mauerkirchen fall
Chladni documented the Mauerkirchen fall in 1803 in the Annals of Physics, Volume 15 - he quotes from a letter which states that the stone made a hole 2 1/2 feet deep and 6 inches wide and that the stone weighed 38 pounds
Date: 09/25/2009
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1768 - Mauerkirchen - .010 grams
Our small piece of this famous historical stone has been classified as an L6 ordinary chondrite
Date: 09/25/2009
Views: 1965
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