David Weir: Meteorite Studies

Dho 011

LL7 or Meta-LL Found December 5, 1999 18° 20.7′ N., 54° 11.9′ E. A single [...]

Dho 008

H/L3.2/3.3 Found December 4, 1999 18° 20.5′ N., 54° 11.3′ E. Three stones with a [...]

DaG 734

EL4 (ELa4 in Weyrauch et al., 2018) Found Winter 1996/97 27° 7.91′ N., 16° 3′ [...]

Dho 007

EucriteMost common type of achondrite meteorite and a member of the HED group. Eucrites are [...]

Del Rio

Iron, IIF, octahedriteMost Common type of iron meteorite, composed mainly of taenite and kamacite and [...]

DaG 962

Iron, IAB complex (Stony iron-ung in MetBull 86) (Achondrite-ung recommended in MetBull DB) Found October [...]

Dalgaranga

Mesosiderite–A Found 1923, the craterBowl-like depression ("crater" means "cup" in Latin) on the surface of [...]

DaG 319

Ureilite Polymict Deep regolithMixture of unconsolidated rocky fragments, soil, dust and other fine granular particles [...]

DaG 430

CV3red–anomalous (C3-ung in MetBull 83) Found 1998 27° 16.76′ N., 16° 24.70′ W. A stone [...]

DaG 275

CK4/5 Found March 24, 1997 27° 21.74′ N., 16° 05.38′ E. Two fragments of this [...]

DaG 222

LL5–6 Found 1996 27° 27′ 12′ N., 16° 18′ 46′ E. A single 837 g [...]

DaG 298

LL4 Found 1997 26° 58.20′ N., 16° 42.28′ E. A mass totaling 2,459 g was [...]

DaG 647

Eucrite Monomict, recrystallized noncumulate (Main Group–Nuevo Laredo trend) Found Winter 1996/97 27° 10′ N., 16° [...]

DaG 476

Martian ShergottiteIgneous stony meteorite with a Martian origin consisting mainly of plagioclase (or a shocked [...]

DaG 262

Lunar Feldspathic BrecciaWork in Progress ... A rock that is a mechanical mixture of different [...]

DaG 084

Ureilite Monomict/Unbrecciated Olivine–pigeoniteLow-Ca clinopyroxene, (Ca,Mg,Fe)SiO3, found as a major mineral in eucrites and shergottites. In [...]

DaG 055

CV3red–anomalous (C3-ung in MetBull 80) Found June 1995 27° 16.03′ N., 16° 25.22′ E. A [...]

Colony

CO3.0 (3.05) Found 1975, approx., recognized 1980 35° 21′ N., 98° 41′ W. A single [...]

DaG 005

CO3.1 (classification reference) Found 1995 27° 09.39′ N., 15° 57.15′ E. Many separate fragments of [...]

Coolidge

C4-ungrouped carbonaceous chondriteCarbonaceous chondrites represent the most primitive rock samples of our solar system. This [...]

DaG 013

R3.5–6, rumurutiiteMember of a rare group of chondrites, formerly named the Carlisle Lakes group, after [...]

Conception Junction

PallasiteOne of two main classes of stony-iron meteorite, the other being mesosiderites. Pallasites are igneous [...]

Chicxulub Impact

Impact glass and spherules in carbonate matrix Beloc, Haiti site Recognized in 1990 18° 22′ [...]

Cat Mountain

L Impact-Melt Breccia (L5 in MetBull 75) Found 1980/81, recognized 1993 32° 8.9′ N., 111° [...]

Chelyabinsk

L/LL5 Fell February 15, 2013, 9:22 A.M. 54° 49′ N., 61° 07′ E. Visit Svend [...]