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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.
Dho 500
Primitive AchondriteAchondrite with an almost chondritic composition with age similar to the primordial chondrites. These [...]
Dho 125
Acapulcoite Acapulcoite–LodraniteRare type of primitive achondrite named after the Lodran meteorite that fell in Pakistan [...]
Dho 225
CM-anom or ung Possible ‘CY’ ChondriteChondrites are the most common meteorites accounting for ~84% of [...]
Dho 732
Achondrite, ungroupedModifying term used to describe meteorites that are mineralogically and/or chemically unique and defy [...]
Dho 182
Eucrite Monomict, noncumulate (Main Group–Nuevo Laredo trend) Found February 9, 2000 18° 56′ 30′ N., [...]
Dho 778
Diogenite, anomalous OrthopyroxeniteA rock composed primarily of orthopyroxene. Non-terrestrial orthopyoxenites include diogenites and a single [...]
Dho 378
Martian Shergottite high-Al basalt ∗ (enriched, maficOne of the two broad categories of silicate minerals, [...]
Dho 019
Martian Shergottite olivine-phyric ∗ (depleted, permafic, reduced) Found January 24, 2000 18° 18.97′ N., 54° [...]
Dho 081
Lunar Feldspathic BrecciaWork in Progress ... A rock that is a mechanical mixture of different [...]
Dho 908
Lunar Feldspathic Breccia (impact-melt) Found January 2003 19° 19.9′ N., 54° 47.0′ E. Nine individual [...]
DaG 868
Ureilite Monomict/Unbrecciated Olivine–pigeoniteLow-Ca clinopyroxene, (Ca,Mg,Fe)SiO3, found as a major mineral in eucrites and shergottites. In [...]
Dho 015
CK4 Found January 21, 2000 18° 38.6′ N., 54° 25.8′ E. A single black, 184 [...]
Dho 010
H IMB (H6 in MetBull 84) Found December 5, 1999 no coordinates recorded Sixteen pieces [...]
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
Eucrite Polymict brecciaGeneral term for all breccias that are neither monomict nor dimict. Modified from [...]
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 regolith fragmental breccia Found 1997 27° 01.68′ N., 16° 21.52′ E. Three [...]
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 [...]