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Willamette. / 45.367°N 122.583°W / 45.367; -122.583. The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette [3] and originally known as Tomanowos by the Clackamas Chinook [4] [5] Native American tribe, is an iron-nickel meteorite found in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the largest meteorite found in the United States and the sixth ...
The Muonionalusta meteorite ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈmuo̯nionˌɑlustɑ], Swedish pronunciation: [mʉˈǒːnɪɔnalːɵsta]) [1] is a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million years BCE. The first fragment of the ...
A meteorite mineral is a mineral found chiefly or exclusively within meteorites or meteorite-derived material. [citation needed] This is a list of those minerals, excluding minerals also commonly found in terrestrial rocks. As of 1997 there were approximately 295 mineral species which have been identified in meteorites.
Peekskill meteorite. / 41.28639°N 73.91639°W / 41.28639; -73.91639. The Peekskill meteorite is the object resulting from a well-documented meteorite event that occurred in October, 1992, in Peekskill, New York, USA. [1] Sixteen separate video recordings document the meteorite burning through the Earth's atmosphere, whereupon it struck ...
No. Found date. 2000. TKW. 1003 kg. Related media on Wikimedia Commons. The Fukang meteorite is a meteorite that was found in the mountains near Fukang, China in 2000. It is a pallasite —a type of stony–iron meteorite with olivine crystals. It is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old.
Found date. 2011. TKW. 0.1 g. Related media on Wikimedia Commons. Khatyrka ( Russian: метеорит Хатырка) is a meteorite found in 2011 in the valley of the Iomrautvaam, a tributary of the Khatyrka river, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Far East. It is a CV3 (oxidized) chondrite meteorite.
Pages in category "Meteorites found in Russia" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Meteorite fall statistics. Meteorite fall statistics are frequently used by planetary scientists to approximate the true flux of meteorites on Earth. Meteorite falls are those meteorites that are collected soon after being witnessed to fall, whereas meteorite finds are discovered at a later time. Although there are 30 times as much finds than ...