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Lissa: Fell 110 years before Czechoslovakia, and 182 years before the Czech Republic

Lissa is an L6 meteorite that fell in 1808. And that’s a long time ago by any meteorite collecting measurement. I feel fortunate to have a slice in my collection because Lissa fell when the ancestors on my father’s side lived in what was once Bohemia, then Czechoslovakia, and now the Czech Republic.    This [...]

Mystery Stone Revealed

I left you all hanging a couple issues ago regarding a meteorite I bought at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. Well, I am ready to tell all now that it is done being classified. It was a strange stone, with a very weird looking outside surface. It was a funny color and not very [...]

Meteorite Market Trends

This Month’s Meteorite Market Trends by Michael Blood

IMCA Insights – April 2012

NWA 6007 L3.5

NWA 6007 is terrestrially fresh but shocked. It has well defined chondrulesSmall round and oval structures of crystal grains found in most chondrite type meteorites. as you would expect of an L3.5. Compression has caused an orientation of components within the stone. Dark inclusions are scattered throughout.                 [...]

Meteorite Calendar – April 2012

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Springwater Pallasite

Our Meteorite of the Month is kindly provided by Tucson Meteorites who hosts The Meteorite Picture of the Day. Contributed by Robert Ward, Springwater 312 gram slice. PallasiteA class of meteorites characterized by a mixture of large olivineA magnesium-iron silicate mineral commonly found in meteorites. It occurs as microscopic crystal grains in chondrites and as [...]

Collapsed Lei Gong Mo Bubble Fragment

A collapsed Lei Gong Mo bubble fragment, Guangdong Province, China (from the author’s private collection)     This is a popped bubble where a flap of the skin folded in on itself while still sufficiently hot and plastic to fuse along the inner surface. Both surfaces have seen the same duration of terrestrial etching, but [...]

Meteorites Stolen from University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy

Sometime between January 27 and March 3, a person or persons entered an office at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy at 640 North A’ohoku Place, Hilo, Hawaii and removed meteorites from within it. The items were important research specimens and teaching tools used in education and public outreach with the young people of [...]

Chantonnay: 200 Years and One Fine Person

One hundred years ago this August… a meteorite fell on the small villa of Chantonnay, France. The stone was studied throughout the next two hundred years including under the observant eye of Tschermak who described a fibrous translucent mineral within the matrixThe material of a meteorite that fills the spaces between chondrulesSmall round and oval [...]

Meteorites For Sale

Mount Padbury Meteorite

The Mount Padbury meteorite was found in 1964 in Western Australia. Mount Padbury is a mesosiderite and has been the topic of much scientific research. Like all mesosiderites it is a mixture of metal and silicate minerals. The specimen we offer are in as found condition with their beautiful orange-brown patinas. They will feel rather heavy for their size because of the rich amount of iron they contain.

NWA 1109 Meteorite

We have some nice part slices of NWA 1109 meteorite for sale on our website. The NWA 1109 Meteorite is a polymict eucrite breccia. It has no free metal, but is rich in light and dark mineral clasts with a beautiful honey color matrix.

Tagish Lake Meteorite

We have 3 sizes of small fragments of Tagish Lake Meteorite for sale available in our online store.

On January 18, 2000 at 8:43 in the morning a tremendous fireball was seen over the Yukon Territory. Loud explosions were soon heard. Some days later a local resident found the first of many fragments on the surface of Tagish Lake in British Columbia, Canada. During the following months while the area was still frozen several hundred meteorites were recovered. Classified as a C2 ungrouped it is a Carbonaceous Chondrite. Since its discovery it has become one of the most researched meteorites of recent time.

Libyan Desert Glass

Please vist our site to see our Libyan Desert Glass for sale. Libyan Desert Glass is generally yellow in color. It can be very clear or it can be a milky, even bubbly light yellow. Some fragments have dark bands and swirls of brownish material. It is in these dark areas that some of the melted comic body is believed by some to be preserved. Libyan Desert Glass was used in ancient times as a gem stone for the Pharaohs and remains a highly prized impact glass for collectors today.

Bediasite Tektites

Our online store has Bediasite Tektites For Sale. Bediasite tektites are found in a small region of eastern Texas. As increased exploration has been done for them the area in which they are found has grown eastward. They are generally a very dark black color and often a little abraded from natural weathering.  Many of our specimens are labeled specimens from the Darryl Futrell Collection of Tektites.

Mars Rocks – Mars Meteorites

We still have a supply of Mars Rock Martian Meteorites for sale on our website.These quality martian meteorite display boxes make nice additions to your meteorite collections as well as wonderful and unique gift items. Each display box contains a genuine specimen of Mars Meteorite NWA 4925.

Moldavites

We have a nice selection of Moldavites For sale. Moldavite tektites are found in an area called the Central European strewnfield. Moldavites are green over most of the dispersed strewnfield though rare brown types are found in some areas.

NWA 869 Meteorite

We have NWA 869 Meteorites in slices and end pieces. It is a brecciated stone with clasts of many different types incorporated into its makeup. slices can contain large metal grains, troilite inclusions, giant chondrules, armored chondrules and almost anything else seen in stone meteorites.

Sikhote-Alin Meteorite

Please visit our Sikhote-Alin Meteorites For Sale page to see our specimens for sale.  Sikhote-Alin meteorites have thumbprints or regmaglyphs what make iron meteorites look so distinctive in museums. Sikhote Alin individuals have this characteristic in miniature and make impressive collection specimens. Naturally sculptured by their passage through the atmosphere these iron meteorites are real beauties.

Silkhote-Alin Meteorite Shrapnel

We have a nice supply of Sikhote-Alin Shrapnel For Sale. These pieces of torn and twisted nickel-iron metal were ripped apart by tremendous force when the comic body hit the Earth.

Moon Rocks | Lunar Meteorites For Sale

View our Moon Rock Lunar Meteorites for sale on our website. These quality lunar meteorite display boxes make nice additions to your meteorite collections as well as wonderful and unique gift items. Each display box contains a genuine specimen of Moon Meteorite NWA 4881.

NWA 1929 (Howardite)

NWA 1929 (Howardite) 3.1g Partial Slice — NWA 1929 is thought to be a sample of surface regolith from the asteroid 4 Vesta. It is a typical Howardite – a polymict breccia containing impact pulverized clasts of both Eucrite crust material and Diogenite mantle material. This partial slice displays small plagioclase and pigeonite clasts from 4 Vesta's crust thoroughly mixed with large angular pyroxene clasts from the asteroid's mantle. Some fusion crust is present on the external edge. (SR0153)

Allende (CV3.2)

Allende (CV3.2) 19.6g Individual — Allende is one of the most primitive meteorites, and it illustrates the history of our solar system better than any other space rock. The calcium-aluminum inclusions (CAIs) seen in CV chondrites were the very first bits of matter to condense out of the solar nebula and even pre-date chondrules by 2-3 million years. The chondrules in Allende formed over 100 million years before the accretion of differentiated bodies like Earth began.

This specimen displays all the important visible characteristics of Allende. There is an approximately 15mm x 15mm window into the interior of this stone, which reveals a large 4mm diameter CAI, plus dozens of chondrules with many displaying their spherical shape. The exterior of this individual shows over 50% fusion crust. (SR0103)

 

Gold Basin Meteorite For Sale

We have Gold Basin meteorite for sale.  Gold Basis is an L4 Chondrite meteorite and is found in an area popular with gold prospectors in Mohave County Arizona, USA. We have some nice individuals and end pieces.

Canyon Diablo Meteorite

The Canyon Diablo meteorite is named after the river gorge near Meteor Crater.  They are among the most historically significant meteorites available to collectors.

Canyon Diable meteorites are made of nickel-iron with inclusions of graphite and other minerals and classified as a coarse octahedrite iron meteorite. Many of the smaller fragments show the effects of being torn apart by the tremendous crater-forming explosion.

Tatahouine (Diogenite)

Tatahouine (Diogenite) 5.2g Fragment — Tatahouine is thought to be a sample of mantle material from the asteroid 4 Vesta. However, it is not a typical Diogenite. The huge pyroxene crystals seen in this particular achondrite illustrate the characteristic Diogenite mineralogy, but Tatahouine is the only Diogenite known that is not brecciated. No samples of Tatahouine exhibiting fusion crust have been reported. (SR0120)

NWA 2977 (Lunar Gabbro)

NWA 2977 (Lunar Gabbro) 0.8g Partial Slice — Laboratory analysis determined this space rock is an olivine-rich cumulate Gabbro. It is thought to be a large Gabbro clast that was part of a larger polymict regolith breccia before it fragmented into many separate pieces during its entry into the Earth's atmosphere. NWA 2977 is most likely a sample of lunar bedrock.

This small piece of the Moon is a gorgeous sight with only the naked eye, but a hand lens or low power microscope will reveal a spectacular scene of yellowish green olivine crystals, grayish white pyroxene crystals, white plagioclase feldspar crystals, and veins of black impact shock glass. The view is absolutely breathtaking and a truly awesome experience! (SR0163)

 

Dar Al Gani 476

Nice 0.6 gram slice with good surface to look at.

Sold in a membrane box.

D’Orbigny Meteorite For Sale

We have some very nice small specimens of D'Orbigny meteorite.

Millbillillie Meteorite For Sale

We just got in some very nice crusted specimens of Millbillillie meteorite.

Brenham Siderite Meteorites For Sale

We have some nice Brenham Siderite meteorites for sale on our shopping site.  The Brenham Meteorite is classified as a Pallasite but some specimens are all iron and are called Brenham Siderite. This meteorite was found in 1882 in Kiowa County, Kansas.   This Brenham Siderite meteorite has a beautiful Widmanstatten pattern when etched.

Meteor Crater – Third Edition

Our site has Jim's Meteor Crater Book, Meteor Crater - Third Edition, the much expanded edition of James Tobin's history of the first hundred years of investigations at Meteor Crater.

Included in the volume are narrative tours of the sites on the crater rim and slopes, as well as a narrative hike of all the historic locations on the floor of the crater.

The second half of his Meteor Crater Book is devoted to historical paper by several of the earliest investigators. These papers are presented close to their original form with all their photographs if they had them.

Commentary by James is limited to before and after these early works to not alter their form. Reading this work is as close to visiting the crater as can be done with a book. Please visit our site to purchase.

Cocklebiddy Meteorite For Sale

We have a nice selection of Cocklebiddy Meteorites for sale in our eStore.  This is an Australian meteorite with a unusually dark matrix with a scattering of nice bright metal grains.

Odessa Meteorites For Sale

We have a limited supply of Odessa Meteorites for sale from the University of New Mexico and each come with the Universitie's specimen card. The Odessa meteorites are the coarse octahedrite type iron meteorite and often have a beautiful naturally sculptured form.

Seymchan Siderite Meteorite For Sale

We have a nice selction of Seymchan Siderite meteorite for sale with it's very attractive etching. The Seymchan meteorite was found in 1967 in Magadanskaya oblast', Russia. The original two pieces discovered were sequestered in museums. Explorations of the find area have resulted in a signification number of additional masses being found. While many masses have olivine crystals characteristic of it's Pallasite classification, other pieces such as these are nearly solid metal.

Kapoeta Meteorite

We have some affordable Kapoeta Meteorite For Sale on our website.  The Kapoeta meteorite was observed to fall on the evening of April 22, 1942. A meteorite stone weighing 11.355 kilograms fell onto a road in Sudan. Kapoeta is a rare type of meteorite called a Howardite. Howardites are the H in the HED family of achondrite meteorites that may have as their source the asteroid Vesta.

Moldavite Jewelry

All of our Moldavite Jewelry is handmade with beautiful specimens of moldavite tektite.  Each moldavite pendant is unique and will never look exactly like another.  Please visit our website to see more.

NWA 4502 (CV3-4)

Carbonaceous chondrites are the most primitive meteorites, and CV chondrites illustrate the history of our solar system better than any other space rock. The calcium-aluminum inclusions (CAIs) seen in CV chondrites were the very first bits of matter to condense out of the solar nebula and even pre-date chondrules by 2-3 million years. The chondrules in CV meteorites formed over 100 million years before the accretion of differentiated bodies like Earth began.

NWA 4502 fell in an unknown Northwest Africa location and was purchased in Erfoud, Morocco. This weathered space rock contains countless chondrules 0.5mm to 1mm in diameter plus dozens of chondrules 1mm to 2mm in diameter. Also visible is a large 4mm calcium-aluminum inclusion (CAI). The external surface of this end piece displays essentially 100% fusion crust.  (SR0166)

Gao Meteorite For Sale

Gao officially named Gao-Guenie was a witnessed fall on March 5 1960. We have some nice affordable Gao meteorites for sale on our website. There was initially some confusion as to whether there had been two distinct falls a month apart in Burkina Faso, but specimens collected using both names are exactly the same material. It is now officially considered to be one fall and has the combined name. Thousands of stones have been found and continue to be recovered from the area. It is an H5 chondrite.

Meteorite Jewelry

We feature meteorite jewelry for sale handcrafted by Ian Barrett.  Ian fashions his handmade pieces of jewelery using unique specimens of meteorite.