Author name: Martin Horejsi

  For those of us with an above average enthusiasm for meteorites, the traditional rock shop is often devoid of the very rocks we crave. Yet we continue to search their offerings in hopes a space rock somehow entered their inventory. And when desperation finally sets in, we resort to asking the question of the proprietor, “Do you have any

About 100 miles separates Titusville, NJ and Peekskill, NY. So why does that matter? Well in 1992, those of us who got excited about meteorites back then were able to follow the events surrounding the fall of the Peekskill meteorite. And the Peekskill meteorite was preceded by the Peekskill fireball that was captured by no less than 16 video cameras.

From 1889 to 1923, Harvey Harlow Nininger followed the fairly traditional and well worn path of an academic, but then something changed. And very likely if you are reading this, you also have experienced that “change” and from that point on, meteorites were part of your life. In the case of H. H. Nininger, he took the rest of the

With a degree in geosciences from Princeton, author Yinan Wang brought the magic and wonder of gems, minerals, and fossils to the young adult masses through a pair of books using “The 50 State” theme. And now in a third book, meteorites join the fold with the new book The 50 State Unofficial Meteorites: A Guidebook for Aspiring Meteoriticists. The

As I was doing some spring cleaning during our first Montana winter blizzard, I found a bag of meteorites labeled at Oum Rokba. Further, there was a polished complete slice with an accompanying specimen card from the Ron Hartman collection. It gave me pause since I knew Ron Hartman had passed on over a decade ago, and Oum Rokba was

A strange thing about the Valera L5 meteorite, besides landing on a cow of course, is that it is currently crossing the bridge of time between recent and historic. October 17, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of its fall to earth. That timespan is also the physical distance between our last visit to the moon, and our renewed interest in

The 21st century began with a bang over Alaska and Canada. Just over two weeks into the new millennium, an amazing specimen of carbonaceous space science landed on a frozen surface preserved about as well as anything could have been outside crashing through the roof of the Lunar and Planetary Lab at Johnson Space Center during a tour by top

Of all the different directions and angles of collecting rocks from space, the so-called Birthday Meteorite is the most personal. And due to the fact that meteorite falls, finds, and of course distribution and collector access, the offerings to those desiring a particular meteorite are not predictable. A Birthday Meteorite, at least according to my unofficial definition, is a meteorite

Within the sovereign borders of Ukraine, over 40 meteorites have been discovered with many of them witnessed falls. Many of them now also considered historic falls and finds, with many of those also rare types. And luckily, many available for our collections. My personal collection contains about 10 different Ukrainian meteorites specimens, and at one time many more when I