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Bediasite Tektites

This bediasite was reportedly found several decades ago, and it tips the scale at 49.2 grams. It comes via Mr. and Mrs. …

For the story behind the stones, click here.

On February 15th, 2009 at around 11AM local time, a small asteroid entered the atmosphere and broke up over Birome, Texas. Larger …

We wrote the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up for this iron; I can’t think of anything else to add. In short, it’s similar to …

Here are some photos from our trip to pick up Camp Wood, a 326 lb. iron meteorite from a town of the …

I don’t have much to add to the Bulletin description of this iron. As of 2016, Camp Wood is the largest iron …

There’s not much online about this Texan find; the bulletin contains scant information, and I couldn’t find any papers describing the discovery. …

Dimmitt is one of the largest meteorites known from North America; hundreds of kilograms of fragments and individuals have been recovered from …

64,000 years ago, a massive piece of nickel-iron entered the atmosphere over what is now Northwest Texas. It was a bad day …

Here’s an odd one! This meteorite is listed in the bulletin as an unclassified iron, and it’s easy to see why: it’s …

When two stones were found near Olton, Texas in 1948, they were initially thought to be paired with each other — and …

Plainview is one of the larger American meteorites ever found, by weight. At least a tonne of individuals and fragments have been …

From Meteoritics Vol. 17, pp 229-230. Many different finds have been identified in the area, but Tulia (a) is an unusual unequilibrated …

There’s precious little about this meteorite available online: a 1974 paper by Derek W. Sears states that the meteorite had a terrestrial …