Education & Research
Most collectables can be enjoyed for their own sake. However, learning about them is what for many of us ignites our imagination and that is especially true for meteorites and other meteorite-related materials. With a better understanding of the underlying science (geology, astronomy, astrobiology, astrophysics just to name a few disciplines), art, history, philosophy and even theology, we can now appreciate their wondrous cosmic insights, place in our collections, and importance throughout human history.
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′ [...]