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.
Georgetown
Iron, IAB-complex, ungroupedModifying term used to describe meteorites that are mineralogically and/or chemically unique and [...]
Gibeon
Iron, IVA, octahedriteMost Common type of iron meteorite, composed mainly of taenite and kamacite and [...]
DIVNOE
AchondriteAn achondrite is a type of stony meteorite whose precursor was of chondritic origin and [...]
Dho 979
Ureilite Monomict/Unbrecciated Olivine–pigeoniteLow-Ca clinopyroxene, (Ca,Mg,Fe)SiO3, found as a major mineral in eucrites and shergottites. In [...]
Dho 1275
L7 (or Meta-L) Found February 6, 2003 18° 49.71′ N., 54° 38.37′ E. A single [...]
D’Orbigny
Angrite Basaltic/Quenched Found July 1979 37° 40′ S., 61° 39′ W. This relatively fresh, 16.55 [...]
Dho 1180
Lunar Mingled Breccia (basalt-bearing fragmental regolithMixture of unconsolidated rocky fragments, soil, dust and other fine [...]
Esquel
PallasiteOne of two main classes of stony-iron meteorite, the other being mesosiderites. Pallasites are igneous [...]
Eagle Station
Pallasite, Eagle Station group (possibly CK- or CO-related) ‘The Butterfly’ Found 1880 38° 37′ N., [...]
Estherville
MesosideriteOne of two main types of stony-iron meteorite, the other being pallasites. Mesosiderites are a [...]