Gibeon

Gibeon - Great Nama, Namibia, Africa
Type - Iron , Nickel Iron Fine Octahedrite
Class - (IVA)
Found - 1836

The Gibeon meteorite is a very beautiful unusual meteorite that has a unique fine octahedral crystalline pattern throughout, known as the Widmanstatten pattern. The Widmanstatten pattern shows banding of nickel and iron that only occurs under near zero gravity conditions at extremely cold temperatures at an estimated one degree cooling per thousand years for millions of years. Its composed of 87% iron, 10% nickel. The Gibeon meteorite was recovered in 1836 from a desolate area in Namibia, Africa. Although the native inhabitants knew about it before then, they used this material for weapons and tools. It is a fragment of an exploded star or asteroid and is many times more rare than diamonds or gold.

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Gibeon

Gibeon - Great Nama, Namibia, Africa
Type - Iron , Nickel Iron Fine Octahedrite
Class - (IVA)
Found - 1836

The Gibeon meteorite is a very beautiful unusual meteorite that has a unique fine octahedral crystalline pattern throughout, known as the Widmanstatten pattern. The Widmanstatten pattern shows banding of nickel and iron that only occurs under near zero gravity conditions at extremely cold temperatures at an estimated one degree cooling per thousand years for millions of years. Its composed of 87% iron, 10% nickel. The Gibeon meteorite was recovered in 1836 from a desolate area in Namibia, Africa. Although the native inhabitants knew about it before then, they used this material for weapons and tools. It is a fragment of an exploded star or asteroid and is many times more rare than diamonds or gold.

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Gibeon

Gibeon - Great Nama, Namibia, Africa
Type - Iron , Nickel Iron Fine Octahedrite
Class - (IVA)
Found - 1836

The Gibeon meteorite is a very beautiful unusual meteorite that has a unique fine octahedral crystalline pattern throughout, known as the Widmanstatten pattern. The Widmanstatten pattern shows banding of nickel and iron that only occurs under near zero gravity conditions at extremely cold temperatures at an estimated one degree cooling per thousand years for millions of years. Its composed of 87% iron, 10% nickel. The Gibeon meteorite was recovered in 1836 from a desolate area in Namibia, Africa. Although the native inhabitants knew about it before then, they used this material for weapons and tools. It is a fragment of an exploded star or asteroid and is many times more rare than diamonds or gold.

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Glorieta Mountain

Glorieta - Mountain - Canoncito, Santa Fe County, New Mexico U.S.A.
Type - Stony-Iron , Pallasite
Class - (PAL)
Found - August 9, 1884

Several masses, total weight about 320lb, the largest weighing 148.5 lb.
Another mass of 2.5kg was found in Rio Arriba Co. New Mexico.

Glorieta pieces like this are extremely rare.
This one has a gorgeous little yellow olivine crystal poping out of it.

A meteorite hunter searched for 14 days in the summer of 1998 to find his 56 gram piece.
The Glorieta Mountain meteorite lies in extremely rough, steep terrain.
This kind of speciman is rare and it takes days of hunting to find one like this.

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Gold Basin

Gold Basin - Mohave County, Arizona U.S.A.
Type - Stone , Olivine - Hypersthene Chondrite
Class - (L4)
Found - November 24, 1995

This meteorite was discovered in Mojave Desert in northern Arizona, in an area of the White Hills.
The discovery was made by Professor Jim Kriegh while prospecting for gold with a metal detector.
Two other meteorite hunters John Blennert and Ingrid Monrad were also part of the recovery team.
The initial date of the find was November 24, 1995. As of November 1997, 2000 stones have been recovered in a 50 square mile area, with a total mass of 61.0 kilograms.
Because the meteorites are often the same size and color as whats on the desert floor, visual identification is difficult.

The largest individual stone has a mass of 1.52 kilograms.
It has been determined that this is an old fall due to the amount of weathering.
I wonder how many times a prospector looking for gold, got a loud sound on the metal detector and then tossed that pesky rock away not knowing what it was.


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El Hammami
Other possible names that were considered, El Farch,
El Arada, Tinjoub, Hamada du Draa
El Hammami - Western Algeria
Type - Stone, Olivine bronzite chondrite
Class -(H5/6)
Fell - in the evening hours of Jan 19 or 20 in 1995
Recovered - in Jan 1997
Its now official 7/30/98 the Meteoritic al Society has recently arrived
at the conclusion that Hamada du Draa and El Hammami are of the same event.

So the official name of this meteorite is El Hammami.
It has a shock stage of S2, and contains metal veins, most of the pieces offered here are fresh from the interior.
Several local people witnessed a fireball in southern Morocco sometime between Jan 19th to 20th in 1995 going in the right direction,
but this is not conclusive. All the pieces found reportedly originate from one piece.

It was broken up into smaller pieces and transported by camels into Morocco by nomads
(These people are the only ones who dare go over the Algerian-Moroccon border)
Approx - coordinates are 29deg 50'N and 5deg 50'W Approx - 200kg total known weight

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Fukang

Fukang - China - in the Gobi desert
Type - Stony, Pallisite
Class - (PAL)
Found - 2000

Actually it was found somewhere else, but nobody is telling:)


Olivine is throughout the large mass
Olivine crystals vary in shape from rounded to angular
many are fractured. They range in size from 5 mm to several cm wide.

The main pallasite contains several regions of massive olivine clusters
up to 11 cm in diameter with thin metal veins only a few mm in width.

1003 kilo's of this was found

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Henbury

Henbury - Northern Territory, Australia
Type - Iron, Nickel Iron Medium Octahedrite
Class - (III)
Found - 1931

This meteorite was found in 1931,
thirteen craters were discovered within a radius of 1/2 square mile.
Large quantities of this meteorite were removed from the area,
over the years the strewn field has been completely stripped of its fragments.

It fell about 5000 years ago.
It was in an area the native people call Sun Walk Fire Devil Rock

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Henbury

Henbury - Northern Territory, Australia
Type - Iron, Nickel Iron Medium Octahedrite
Class - (III)
Found - 1931

This meteorite was found in 1931,
thirteen craters were discovered within a radius of 1/2 square mile.
Large quantities of this meteorite were removed from the area,
over the years the strewn field has been completely stripped of its fragments.

It fell about 5000 years ago.
It was in an area the native people call Sun Walk Fire Devil Rock

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Holbrook

Holbrook-Navajo County, Arizona, U.S.A.
Type - Stone,Olivine-hypersthene chondrite
Class -(L6)
Fell - July 19, 1912 6:30 P.M.

On July 19,1912 at a small railroad station just east of Holbrook a rain of tiny stones fell.
14,000 stones were collected and distributed to collections all over the world - a very famous and well known fall.
29 individuals over 1000 grams, 6000 individuals 1 to 1000 grams, 8000 under a gram.

It fell in an area 1/2 mile wide and 3 miles long


Heres a break down of the amount and sizes found
Holbrook fall

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Huckitta

Northern Territory- Australia
Type - Pallasite
Class -(PAL) Stony - iron
Found - 1924

The meteorite was found in the Burt Plains of Northwestern Australia.
This is a weathered pallasite, it is very old, in fact the iron and olivene have turned to hematite and magnetite.
A really fascinating meteorite to look at with a ghostly image of it's former condition.
The surface exhibits a typical black gunmetal color as often seen.

These examples that will make a nice addition to any collection and are available at a low price.

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Imilac

Imilac - Atacama Desert, Atacama, Chile
Type - Stoney-Iron, Pallasite
Class - (PAL)
Found - 1822 in a valley southwest of Imilac, Chile

This exquisite pallasite has large olivine crystals, the olivine crystals are embedded in a nickel-iron matrix.
The strewn field is still hunted today.

Only one crater is recognized in the area, Stony irons are rare and only make up 1.7% of falls

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Imilac

Imilac - Atacama Desert, Atacama,Chile
Type - Stoney-Iron, Pallasite
Class - (PAL)
Found - 1822 in a valley southwest of Imilac, Chile

This exquisite pallasite has large olivine crystals, the olivine crystals are embedded in a nickel-iron matrix.
The strewn field is still hunted today.

This meteorite is used in making jewelry, Stony irons are rare and only make up 1.7% of falls

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Imilac

Imilac - Atacama Desert, Atacama,Chile
Type - Stoney-Iron, Pallasite
Class - (PAL)
Found - 1822 in a valley southwest of Imilac, Chile

This exquisite pallasite has large olivine crystals, the olivine crystals are embedded in a nickel-iron matrix.
The strewn field is still hunted today.

This meteorite is used in making jewelry, Stony irons are rare and only make up 1.7% of falls

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Indochinite

Indochinites are found primarily in Southern China, Thailand, and Vietnam. They appear in many shapes that include disc, dumbbells, teardrops and irregular shapes. Called splash - form tektites, they illustrate what happens to molten glass spinning in flight. Following the impact of an asteroid, melted material is launched into our atmosphere. As this molten blob plunges back to Earth, it shapes itself aerodynamically into a dumbbell, if there was enough time in flight the dumbbell splits apart to become two tear drops.

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