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