Meteorite - Notable Meteorites

Notable Meteorites

• Allende, largest known carbonaceous chondrite (Chihuahua, Mexico, 1969).
• Allan Hills 81005 – First meteorite determined to be of lunar origin.
• Allan Hills 84001 – Mars meteorite that was claimed to prove the existence of life on Mars.
• The Bacubirito Meteorite (Meteroito de Bacubirito) – A meteorite estimated to weigh between 20 and 30 tons. It is on display at the Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.
• Canyon Diablo – Iron meteorite used by prehistoric Native Americans.
• Cape York – One of the largest meteorites in the world. A 34 ton fragment called "Ahnighito", is exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History; the largest meteorite on exhibit in any museum.
• Elbogen – The oldest recorded meteorite in the Czech Republic, also known as the "betwitched burgrave".
• Huckitta – A large Australian Pallasite.
• Hoba – The largest known meteorite.
• Hrascina meteorite – Croatian meteorite first speculated as originating from outer space.
• Kaidun – Possibly from the martian moon Phobos.
• Murchison – A carbonaceous chondrite found to contain nucleobases – the building block of life.
• Nōgata – The oldest meteorite whose fall can be dated precisely (to May 19, 861, at Nōgata)
• Orgueil – Object of a hoax that involved adhering a seed to part of the meteorite.
• Sikhote-Alin – Massive iron meteorite impact event that occurred on February 12, 1947.
• Tucson Ring – Ring shaped meteorite, used by a blacksmith as a table, in Tucson AZ. Currently at the Smithsonian.
• Willamette – The largest meteorite ever found in the United States.
• The Peruvian meteorite event – On 15 September 2007, a stony meteorite that may have weighed as much as 4000 kilograms created a crater 13 meters in diameter near the village of Carancas, Peru.

Apart from meteorites fallen onto the Earth, two tiny fragments of asteroids were found among the samples collected on the Moon; these were the Bench Crater meteorite (Apollo 12, 1969) and the Hadley Rille meteorite (Apollo 15, 1971). Furthermore the Opportunity rover discovered the "Heat Shield Rock" meteorite on Mars in addition to five similar iron meteorites. Two nickel-iron meteorites were identified by the Spirit rover.