May 2025 -

Jilin turns 50 next year: I remember when that meteorite was just a kid!

By Martin Horejsi | May 1, 2025 | Accretion Desk

Three thousand nine hundred two pounds! That’s the weight of the main mass of Jilin, China, an H5 chondrite that fell on March 8, 1976. And that weight, whether pounds or 1770 kilograms, is the world’s largest individual stone meteorite. Jilin displaced the Norton County, Kansas Aubrite which was the previous record-holding individual stone meteorite at 1070kg. Now I remember

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Everywhere are Meteorites

By James Tobin | May 1, 2025 | Jim's Fragments

I have another lecture on Meteorites to give at the beginning of next month. The presentation was supposed to happen in April, but it was snowed out. I was sitting in my office one day recently making a post for social media. I saw nothing but meteorites around me. Every shelf and display case and my actual desk had meteorites

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OC4-melt breccia

By John Kashuba | May 1, 2025 | Micro Visions

I had heard from a friend about the high metal content of NWA 15468 OC4-melt breccia. It sounded interesting so I decided to check it out.

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Turpan 003 A Phenomenal Example Of Dendritic Growth At Scale

By Michael Kelly | May 1, 2025 | MeteorWriting

The Metbul provides the following basic information on Turpan 003. It is a IIIAB Iron found in the desert outside of Turpan City, Xinjiang Provenance China by Ashanjiang Mahemuti on 15 March 2022. Originally only a low gram count single find; additional searches over the course of the following year turned up multiple masses with a range of sizes from

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Why Collect Meteorites?

By Melissa Silva | May 1, 2025 | The Little Strangers

Why collect meteorites? It’s a simple question, yet one that invites a lot of discussion. There are meteorite collections in collections all over the world. The largest meteorite collections are housed by universities and museums like The Natural History Museum of Vienna, Arizona State University, NASA Johnson Space Center, and other institutions. Many of these collections aid in the study

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Making Meteorite Art

By Anthony Ortiz | May 1, 2025 | Guest Articles

I have been making visual art for over 3 decades and, before this year, not once had I used meteorites as a subject in my art. In fact, add me to the list of folks who (until about a year ago) didn’t even know that a meteorite collectors market existed, let alone that meteoritics was its own field of study.

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