David Weir: Meteorite Studies

Pallasites: A Rare View (Part 2)

PALLASITES: A Rare View Part II The pallasites displayed on this page are seldom represented [...]

The Legend of the Nakhla Dog

A legend has been perpetuated in the meteoriteWork in progress. A solid natural object reaching [...]

Have You Found a Meteorite?

If you think that you might have found a candidate meteoriteWork in progress. A solid [...]

Indicators of a Mercurian Meteorite

representative presently unknown Mercury is an igneous, differentiated planetary body thought to have undergone initial [...]

Collisional Disruption of a Primary Planetary Body

Collisional Disruption of a Primary Planetary Body On one scale of Solar SystemThe Sun and [...]

Zakłodzie (Zaklodzie)

Primitive Enstatite AchondriteUsed in past as synonym for Aubrites. Present definition from the Meteoritical Bulletin [...]

Zag (B)

AchondriteAn achondrite is a type of stony meteorite whose precursor was of chondritic origin and [...]

Weatherford

CBa, bencubbinite Found 1926, recognized 1940 35° 30′ N., 98° 42′ W. A mass of [...]

Zag

H3–6 Fell August 4 or 5, 1998 ~27° 20′ N., 9° 20′ W. This fall [...]

Yilmia

EL6 (ELa6 in Weyrauch et al., 2018) Found 1969 31° 11′ 30′ S., 121° 32′ [...]

Zagami

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

Woodbine

Iron, IAB complex, Pitts grouplet Found Spring 1953 42° 20′ 48′ N., 90° 10′ 6′ [...]

Whitecourt

Iron, IIIAB, octahedrite Found July 1, 2007 53° 59′ 57′ N., 115° 35′ 51′ W. [...]

Willamette

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

Tierra Blanca

Winonaitea partially differentiated asteroid that was disrupted just as it began to form an Fe [...]

Vigarano

CV3.3 (3.1–3.4)red Fell January 22, 1910 44° 51′ N., 11° 24′ E. At 9:30 P.M. [...]

Tucson

Iron, ungrouped (silicated, possibly unique member of CR chondriteClass named for the Renazzo meteorite that [...]

Tieschitz

H/L3.6 Fell July 15, 1878 49° 36′ N., 17° 7′ E. A single 27.4 kg [...]

NWA R-Type (Unclassified)

R chondrite breccia, rumurutiiteMember of a rare group of chondrites, formerly named the Carlisle Lakes [...]

NWA Eucrite (Unclassified)

Eucrite, monomict (tentative classification) Found 2006 coordinates not recorded A single 16 g stone covered [...]

Vermillion

Pyroxene Pallasite Vermillion grouplet Found May, 1991, recognized 1995 39° 44.18′ N., 96° 21.68′ W. [...]

Tombigbee River

Iron, IIG (Compositionally linked to group IIAB) Found 1859 32° 14′ N., 88° 12′ W. [...]

Wabar

Iron, IIIA, octahedrite Found 1863 21° 30.25′ N., 50° 28.30′ E. A massive meteoric aerial [...]

Vaca Muerta

MesosideriteOne of two main types of stony-iron meteorite, the other being pallasites. Mesosiderites are a [...]

Tektites

TEKTITES AND OTHER IMPACT-RELATED MATERIAL left to right and top to bottom: Quiongshan, Hainan, China [...]