Systematic meteorite collection in the Catalina Dense Collection area (Chile): Description and statisticsOPEN ACCESS
Carine Sadaka, Jérôme Gattacceca, Matthieu Gounelle, Mathieu Roskosz, Anthony Lagain, Romain Tartese, Lydie Bonal, Clara Maurel, Rodrigo Martinez, Millarca Valenzuela MAPS, Version of Record online: 10 January 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We present…
Ab initio strewn field for small asteroids impactsOPEN ACCESS
Albino Carbognani, Marco Fenucci, Raffaele Salerno, Marco Micheli IcarusAvailable online 21 October 2024, 116345 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “In recent years, nine small near-Earth asteroids were discovered a few hours before the collision with…
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warmingOPEN ACCESS
Veronica Tollenaar, Harry Zekollari, Christoph Kittel, Daniel Farinotti, Stef Lhermitte, Vinciane Debaille, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys, Katherine Helen Joy & Frank Pattyn Nature Climate Change, Published: 08 April 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “More…
New evidence on the lost giant Chinguetti meteoriteOPEN ACCESS
Robert Warren, Stephen Warren, Ekaterini Protopapa Submitted to Meteoritics and Planetary Science (20 Feb 2024) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The giant Chinguetti meteorite that Gaston Ripert reported seeing in 1916 has never been found. A radionuclide…
Pairing relations within CO3 chondrites recovered at the Dominion Range and Miller Range, Transantarctic mountains: Constraints from chondrule olivines, noble gas, and H, C, N bulk and isotopic compositions
K. Righter, C. M. O’D. Alexander, D. I. Foustoukos, L. M. Eckart, C. A. K. Mertens, H. Busemann, C. Maden, J. Schutt, C. E. Satterwhite, R. P. Harvey, K. Pando, J. Karner MAPS, Version of…
2023/2024 ANSMET Field Season ended with more than 200 meteorite finds
Last update: 30 January (16:06 CET) After three cancelled field seasons (2020-2023) the 2024/2025 ANSMET field season on the Davis-Ward Icefields has begun. This year’s team members have arrived in the field. Team members are…
An overview of the new Moroccan regulation on collection and export of meteorites: a geoheritage to promote and preserve
Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane MAPS, Version of Record online: 13 January 2024 LINK “Morocco is known for the high number of meteorites collected in its territory, including finds and falls. This is explained by the large…
Overview of the Lost Meteorites of Antarctica field campaignsOPEN ACCESS
K. H. Joy, A. R. D. Smedley, J. L. MacArthur, W. van Verre, L. A. Marsh, M. Rose, T. A. Harvey, R. Tartèse, R. H. Jones, I. D. Abrahams, J. W. Wilson, A. J. Peyton,…
Hand magnets and the destruction of ancient meteorite magnetismOPEN ACCESS
Foteini Vervelidou, Benjamin P. Weiss, France Lagroix JGR: PlanetsFirst Published: 06 April 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Key Points The magnetic records of meteorites provide information about planetary formation and evolution, yet they are…
Localizing The First Interstellar Meteor With Seismometer DataOPEN ACCESS
Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb submitted for publication PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The first meter-scale interstellar meteor (IM1) was detected by US government sensors in 2014, identified as an interstellar object candidate in 2019, and confirmed by…
Application of drone-captured thermal imagery in aiding in the recovery of meteorites within a snow-covered strewn field
Patrick J. A. Hill, Libby D. Tunney, Christopher D. K. Herd MAPSVersion of Record online: 27 February 2023 LINK “The rapid recovery of meteorites mitigates the exposure of astromaterials to the terrestrial environment and subsequent…
Five Meteorites found during Antarctic reconnaissance mission to find new meteorite accumulation areas
On 18 January 2023 the Université Libre de Bruxelles announced that five meteorites, including a 7.6-kilogram mass (H chondrite) and the first find, a 150-gram specimen, have been recovered during a reconnaissance mission by an…
Testing materials to mitigate terrestrial organic contamination of meteorites: Implications for collection, curation, and handling of astromaterials
Libby D. Tunney, Patrick J. A. Hill, Christopher D. K. Herd, Robert W. Hilts MAPSVersion of Record online: 13 January 2023 LINK “Organic matter in astromaterials can provide important information for understanding the chemistry of our solar system…
An Ocean Expedition by the Galileo Project to Retrieve Fragments of the First Large Interstellar Meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08OPEN ACCESS
Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb, Tim Gallaudet submitted to the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. text overlap with arXiv:2204.08482 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The earliest confirmed interstellar object, `Oumuamua, was discovered in the Solar System by Pan-STARRS in…
Minimoon still on the looseOPEN ACCESS
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Seamus Anderson, Martin C. Towner, Patrick M. Shober, Anthony J. T. Jull, Matthias Laubenstein, Eleanor K. Sansom, Philip A. Bland, Martin Cupák, Robert M. Howie, Benjamin A. D. Hartig, Garry N….
Rapid Recovery of a New Chondrite Meteorite near Natchez, Mississippi
Welzenbach L. C. * Fries M. D. Cooke W. J. Moser D. Hicks S. Rassmussen E. Satterwhite C. E. Righter K. Sheikh D. Ruzicka A. M. Hutson M. L. Vargas R. Stream M. Eckley S….
Successful Recovery of an Observed Meteorite Fall Using Drones and Machine LearningOPEN ACCESS
Seamus L. Anderson, Martin C. Towner, John Fairweather, Philip A. Bland, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Eleanor K. Sansom, Martin Cupak, Patrick M. Shober, Gretchen K. Benedix PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report the first-time recovery of…
Trajectory, recovery, and orbital history of the Madura Cave meteoriteOPEN ACCESS
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Eleanor K. Sansom, Patrick Shober, Seamus L. Anderson, Martin C. Towner, Anthony Lagain, Martin Cupák, Philip A. Bland, Robert M. Howie, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Benjamin A. D. Hartig, Marcin Sokolowski, Gretchen Benedix,…
Tracing Organic Contamination from Collection to Curation: Best Practices for the Recovery and Contamination Mitigation of Meteorites
Tunney L. D. Hill P. J. A. Herd C. D. K. Hilts R. W. PDF LPSC 2022 abstract [#2103] “In this study, we derive six key recommendations for recovering, handling, and curating freshly fallen meteorites.”
Unexplored Antarctic meteorite collection sites revealed through machine learningOPEN ACCESS
Veronica Tollenaar, Harry Zekollari, Stef Lhermitte, David M.J. Tax, Vinciane Debaille, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys and Frank Pattyn Science Advances • 26 January 2022 • Vol 8, Issue 4 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary…
Second Russian meteorite search and reconnaissance expedition at Mikheev mountains, southern Wohlthat Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica (11/2021) – one confirmed meteorite has been found
Last update: 22 December 2021 On 13 November the search team of Ural Federal University (UrFU) and Kazan Federal University (KFU) left South Africa and landed at Novolazarevskaya Research Station in Antarctica after a 5-hour…
Meteorite terrestrial ages in Oman based on gamma spectrometry and sediment dating, focusing on the Ramlat Fasad dense collection areaOPEN ACCESS
Åke V. Rosén, Beda A. Hofmann, Frank Preusser, Edwin Gnos, Urs Eggenberger, Marc Schumann, Sönke Szidat Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 04 November 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We combine the search…
Status Note on Indian Attempts to Search for Meteorites in AntarcticaOPEN ACCESS
Ashit Kumar Swain Journal of the Geological Society of IndiaVol.97, August 2021, pp.915-922Published: 07 August 2021 LINKPDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The study of meteorites is gaining importance due to its importance in understanding the development of…
Darkflight estimates of meteorite fall positions: issues and a case study using the Murrili meteorite fallOPEN ACCESS
M.C. Towner, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, M. Cupak, E.K. Sansom, H.A.R. Devillepoix, P.A. Bland, R.M Howie, J.P. Paxman, G.K. Benedix, B.A.D. Hartig PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (21 February 2022): The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 3, Number 2LINK…
Bolide fragment detection in Doppler weather radar data using artificial intelligence / machine learning
Brendon Smeresky, Paul Abell, Marc Fries, Mike Hankey Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 27 July 2021 LINK “Unsupervised machine learning methods present a promising approach for detecting fragments produced from meteors and bolides as distinct…
Arpu Kuilpu, an Ordinary Chondrite on a Jupiter Family Cometary Orbit
Towner M. C., Sansom E. K., Devillepoix H. A. R., Cupak M., Bland P. A., Anderson S. L., Shober P. M. 84th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2021 (abstract # 6206) PDF We describe…
Recovery of meteorites using an autonomous drone and machine learningOPEN ACCESS
Robert I. Citron, Peter Jenniskens, Christopher Watkins, Sravanthi Sinha, Amar Shah, Chedy Raissi, Hadrien Devillepoix, Jim Albers Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 9 June 2021 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “The recovery of freshly fallen meteorites…
Determination of strewn fields for meteorite fallsOPEN ACCESS
Jarmo Moilanen, Maria Gritsevich, Esko Lyytinen Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stab586Published: 01 March 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) Supplemental Files (ZIP/DOWNLOAD) “When an object enters the atmosphere it may be detected as a…
The discovery of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains: How the 1969 discoveries changed planetary science
Akira Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Shiraishi, Ralph Harvey Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceInvited ReviewVersion of Record online: 27 January 2021 LINK “No abstract is available for this article.”
A detailed record of the BELARE 2019－2020 meteorite recovery expedition on the Nansen Ice Field, East AntarcticaOPEN ACCESS
Steven Goderis, Mehmet Yesiltas, Hamed Pourkhorsandi, Naoki Shirai, Manu Poudelet, Martin Leitl, Akira Yamaguchi, Vinciane Debaille, Philippe Claeys Antarctic Record 65:1-20 – Conference Paper LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “This report summarizes the Belgian Antarctic…
Machine Learning for Semi-Automated Meteorite RecoveryOPEN ACCESS
Seamus Anderson, Martin Towner, Phil Bland, Christopher Haikings, William Volante, Eleanor Sansom, Hadrien Devillepoix, Patrick Shober, Benjamin Hartig, Martin Cupak, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Robert Howie, Gretchen Benedix, Geoff Deacon PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (2 December 2020):…
The First Russian-Mongolian Meteorite Expedition to the Gobi Desert
Aleksander Yu. Pastukhovich, S. Demberel, Viktor I. Grokhovsky, Viktor V. Sharygin, Stepan V. Berzin, Kseniya A. Dugushkina, Mikhail Yu. Larionov, Lev A. Muravyev, T. Nasan-Ochir, Evgeniya V. Petrova, Grigoriy A. Yakovlev Minerals: Structure, Properties, Methods…
Advances in Cosmochemistry Enabled by Antarctic MeteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Meenakshi Wadhwa, Timothy J. McCoy, and Devin L. Schrader Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences Vol. 48:233-258 (Volume publication date May 2020)First published as a Review in Advance on January 8, 2020 LINK (OPEN…
The spatial flux of Earth’s meteorite falls found via Antarctic dataOPEN ACCESS
G.W. Evatt, A.R.D. Smedley, K.H. Joy, L. Hunter, W.H. Tey, I.D. Abrahams, L. Gerrish Geology, 29 April 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Contemporary calculations for the flux of extraterrestrial material falling to the Earth’s…
A Global Fireball ObservatoryOPEN ACCESS
H. A. R. Devillepoix, M. Cupák, P. A. Bland, E. K. Sansom, M. C. Towner, R. M. Howie, B. A. D. Hartig, T. Jansen-Sturgeon, P. M. Shober, S. L. Anderson, G. K. Benedix, D. Busan,…
Solar radiative transfer in Antarctic blue ice: spectral considerations, subsurface enhancement, inclusions, and meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Andrew R. D. Smedley, Geoffrey W. Evatt, Amy Mallinson, and Eleanor Harvey The Cryosphere, 14, 789–809, 2020 Published: 05 Mar 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We describe and validate a Monte Carlo model…
Antarctic meteorite recovery during BELARE 2019-2020 – 66 finds (1-889 g /~ 8.28 kg)
Last update: 26 January 2021 LINK “Following successful recovery missions in 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2012-2013, and 2018-2019, an international team of Belgian, Turkish and Japanese scientists has recovered 66 meteorites in the 2019-2020 season, totaling more…
Macro-classification of meteorites by portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pED-XRF), principal component analysis (PCA) and machine learning algorithms
Ignazio Allegretta, Bruno Marangoni, Paola Manzari, Carlo Porfido, Roberto Terzano, Olga De Pascale, Giorgio S.Senesi Talanta Available online 25 January 2020 LINK “Highlights • pED-XRF analysis were used to discriminate and classify between meteorites and…
Design and construction of a bespoke system for the detection of buried, iron-rich meteorites in Antarctica
John W. Wilson, Liam A. Marsh, Wouter Van Verre, Michael C. Rose, Geoffrey Evatt, Andrew R.D. Smedley and Anthony J. Peyton Antarctic ScienceVolume 32, Issue 1 February 2020 , pp. 58-69 LINK “Iron-rich meteorites are…
ANSMET 2019/2020 Field Season / 346 meteorites found
Last update: 9 December 2020 This year’s ANSMET field season around Davis Ward Nunatak has ended for the team members John Schutt, Brian Rougeux, Jim Karner, Cindy Evans, Marc Caffee, Emilie Dunham, Lauren Angotti, Alexander…
69 ‘surface meteorites’ but no subsurface specimens found – Panel sledge detector system has broken – UK meteorite search in Antarctica 2019/2020 – Lost meteorites of Antarctica Project
Last update: 4 January 2024 The 2019/20 main field trip of the project Lost Meteorites of Antarctica to recover subsurface iron meteorites on some blue icefields in Antarctica did not end as planned. Four members…
A Dynamic Trajectory Fit to Multi-Sensor Fireball ObservationsOPEN ACCESS
Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Eleanor K. Sansom, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Philip A. Bland, Martin C. Towner, Robert M. Howie, Benjamin A. D. Hartig PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Preprint submitted to Astronomical Journal (5 November 2019) “Meteorites with…
A statistical analysis of the H/L ratio of ordinary chondrite finds and falls: A comparison of Oman finds with other populations
Ioannis Kouvatsis, Beda A. Hofmann Meteoritics & Planetary Science LINK “Hot and cold deserts have been thoroughly searched for meteorites in the past decades, which has led to a large inventory of classified meteorites. H‐…
UK meteorite search reconnaissance mission in Antarctica 2018/2019 – 36 meteorites found
Last update: 10 May 2022 On a blue icefield meteorite search reconnaissance mission members of the UK Polar Meteorite Exploration and Research team consisting of Katherine (Katie) Joy and field guide Julie Baum have found…
Unravelling the high-altitude Nansen blue ice field meteorite trap (East Antarctica) and implications for regional palaeo-conditions
Harry Zekollari, Steven Goderis, Vinciane Debaille, Matthias van Ginneken, Jérôme Gattacceca, ASTER Team, A.J. Timothy Jull, Jan Lenaerts, Akira Yamaguchi, Philippe Huybrechts, Philippe Claeys Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Available online 4 January 2019. LINK “Antarctic…
ANSMET 2018/2019 Field Season has ended / ~ 865 specimens found (upd. 24 Jan)
Last update: 24 January 2019 Most meteorites found on the blue ice fields and the eastern and western moraines at the foot of Mount Ward appear to be rather smallish ordinary chondrites but one meteorite…
Meteorite reconnaissance in Saudi Arabia
Beda A. Hofmann, Edwin Gnos, A. J. Timothy Jull, Sönke Szidat, Ayman Majoub, Khalid Al Wagdani, Siddiq N. Habibullah, Mohammed Halawani, Mohammed Hakeem, Mahmoud Al Shanti, Abdulaziz Al Solami Meteoritics & Planetary Science First published:…
ANSMET 2017/18 Field Season – End count: 263 finds (2 February 2018)
Last update: 2 February,2018 On 15 December, the first day in the field, team A found the first four meteorites near Mount Cecily in the Grosvenor Mountains. On 10 January the biggest meteorite of the…
In Situ Thermal Imagery of Antarctic Meteorites and Their Stability on the Ice Surface
Harvey R. P. Righter M. Karner J. M. Hynek B. Keller L. Meshik A. Mittlefehldt D. W. Radebaugh J. Rougeux B. Schutt J. W. 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 [#6113] abstract (PDF)
Meteorite Recovery Using an Autonomous Drone and Machine Learning
R. I. Citron, A. Shah, S. Sinha, C. Watkins, P. Jenniskens 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2528 LINK
A Method for Estimating Meteorite Fall Mass from Weather RADAR Data
C. E. Laird, M. Fries, R. Matson 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2129 LINK
First Meteorites from a Russian Antarctic Expedition
C. A. Lorenz, M. A. Ivanova, N. G. Zinovieva, N. N. Kononkova, G. A. Yakovlev, E. V. Petrova, R. F. Muftakhetdinova, M. Yu. Larionov, V. I. Grokhovsky 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract…
First British meteorite search expedition to Antarctica in 2019/20 – Searching for iron meteorites
Last update: 28 March 2018 A first British meteorite expedition to Antarctica to locate subsurface iron meteorites in 2019/20 is being planned. The expedition of a University of Manchester multidisciplinary research team is operationally and…
Iranian-Russian meteorite search expedition in Dasht-e Loot (Loot Desert) has ended. Kilograms of suspected meteorites have been found.
Last update: 30 June 2018 An Iranian-Russian meteorite search expedition in the Dasht-e Loot (Loot Desert), starting on 1 January 2017 ended with the arrival of the Russian team members (Mikhail Larionov, Nikolay Kruglikov, Aleksandr…
ANSMET 2016 / 2017 Field Season – total of 219 meteorites found
Last update: 19 January During this year’s very short ANSMET season a total of 219 meteorites, including a big ordinary chondrite, an iron specimen and several carbonaceous chondrites, have been found since January 7. The…
Dishchii’bikoh Ts’iłsǫǫsé Tsee – 15 meteorites (79.46 g, LL7) of June 2, 2016 bolide (~10:56:28 UTC) found on White Mountain Apache Tribal land, Arizona, USA
Last update: 29 May, 2017 Dishchii’bikoh Ts’iłsǫǫsé Tsee ♫ has been officially registered as witnessed fall: LINK More information on the Dishchii’bikoh Ts’iłsǫǫsé Tsee fall can be read HERE. The meteorite search As announced by…
Search and Recover of Antarctic Meteorites from Lomonosov Mountains, Queen Maud Land by the First Russian Meteorite Expedition
Larionov M. Yu. Grokhovsky V. I. Kolunin R. N. Pastukhovich A. Yu. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6369 abstract
STUBENBERG – Fall (LL6) in Bavaria, Germany on 6 March 2016 at 9:36:51-56 p.m. UTC
An updated and extended version of this post has been established on this page: STUBENBERG Last update: 31 May 2017 The Stubenberg meteorite—An LL6 chondrite fragmental breccia recovered soon after precise prediction of the strewn…
A potential hidden layer of meteorites below the ice surface of AntarcticaOPEN ACCESS
G. W. Evatt, M. J. Coughlan, K. H. Joy, A. R. D. Smedley, P. J. Connolly, I. D. Abrahams PDF (open access) Supplementary Notes and References (PDF) Nature Communications 7, Article number: 10679 doi:10.1038/ncomms10679 Published…
OSCEOLA – First six meteorites of the fall on January 24 at 10.30 am EST in Northern Florida, USA have been found
UPDATE: April 2, 2016 Osceola was officially registered as L6 in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database on April 2, 2016 LINK “Osceola 30°27.16’N, 82°27.25’W Florida, USA Confirmed fall: 2016 Jan 24 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6) History:…
Extended Meteor Hunting with Smartphones as Surveillance Cameras
P. G. Vizi, Sz. Bérczi, Sz. Csizmadia, T. Hegedus 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #1797 PDF
A gamma-ray spectroscopy survey of Omani meteorites
Patrick Weber, Beda A Hoffmann, Tamer Tolba, Jean-Luc Vuilleumier submitted to Meteoritics ans Planetary Science PDF (open access) abstract “The gamma-ray activities of 33 meteorite samples (30 ordinary chondrites, 1 Mars meteorite, 1 iron, 1…
The ANSMET 2015 / 2016 Field Season has ended – 569 samples collected including a basketball-sized OC, a possible pallasite, and a possible howardite (updated: Jan 24)
Last update: January 24, 2016 On December 18 the search team found the first three meteorites. Additonal twelve meteorites were found on December 20, the second day of hunting. The next day several meteorites were…
Ural Federal University’s first Antarctic meteorite search expedition 2015/16 – at least two meteorites, LOM 15001, an H-chondrite, and LOM 15002, a monomict Eucrite, have been found (updated: Apr 10, 2021)
Last update: April 10, 2021 First Meteorites from a Russian Antarctic Expedition C. A. Lorenz, M. A. Ivanova, N. G. Zinovieva, N. N. Kononkova, G. A. Yakovlev, E. V. Petrova, R. F. Muftakhetdinova, M. Yu….
New 1/10 scale 3D model of the Chelyabinsk main mass will be shown at 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Berkeley / Plans on Russian Antarctic meteorite search expedition presented
On July 9 the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg informed about a new 1/10 scale 3D model of the Chelyabinsk main mass which will be publicly presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical…
36.7 kg meteorite found at Elephant Moraine by Korean Antarctic reconnaissance helicopter search team
A Korean reconnaissance helicopter meteorite search team has apparently found a 36.7 kg meteorite with a diameter of ~30 cm at a location about 300km away from Jang Bogo Station on the Elephant Moraine (Antarctica)…
The ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season – 562 meteorites collected
562 meteorites have been collected during the 2014/2015 season. 60% of these were collected on the morains. Together with the meteorites from the 2013/2014 season, which have been stored in Antarctica for a year, almost…
Souss/Météorites – Un commerce juteux pour les nomades
Souss/Météorites – Un commerce juteux pour les nomades L’Economiste (Morocco), 28 January 2015 Souss/Météorites – Un commerce juteux pour les nomades (automatic English translation)
On the hunt for rare rock after meteorite falls from sky / Bolide, 20 December 2014, 00:25:00, 40 km east of Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada
Geoscience professor asking for public’s help to locate fragments 20 December, 2014, 00:25:00, 40 km east of Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada “Hildebrand says the apparent weakness displayed indicates this rock was unusual, probably…
The ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season ended on 17 January 2015
The ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season ended on 17 January 2015 488 meteorites have been collected
ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season (488 meteorites found so far)
ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season (488 meteorites found so far) 488 meteorites found so far (16th January) 119 meteorites found at a moraine, inofficially called ‘meteorite beach’.
ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season (369 meteorites found so far)
ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season (369 meteorites found so far) 369meteorites found so far (15th January)
[Žd’ár nad Sázavou] A second meteorite (39.3 grams) of the Czech bolide on 9 December 2014 was found near Vatín on January 12 by Czech astronomers, first meteorite classified as type L3.9
A second meteorite with a weight of 39.3 grams was found around noon on 12 January 2015 by astronomers of the Czech Astronomical Institute (Astronomický ústav Akademie věd České republiky (AsÚ)) according to Czech television…
A second meteorite (41 grams) of the Czech bolide on 9 December 2014 was found near Vatín by Czech astronomers, first meteorite classified as type L3.9
A second meteorite with a weight of 41 grams was found around noon on 12 January 2015 by astronomers of the Czech Astronomical Institute (Astronomický ústav Akademie věd České republiky (AsÚ)) according to the Czech…
ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season (340 meteorites found)
340 meteorites found (11th January) Two recently found meteorites: Suspected carbonaceous chondrite found 11 January 2015 Source
ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season (almost 250 meteorites found so far)
almost 250 meteorites found so far (9th January)
ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season ( >230 meteorites found so far)
>230 meteorites found so far (7th January)
ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season (187 meteorites found so far)
187 meteorites found so far (4th January)
ANSMET 2014 / 2015 Field Season (163 meteorites found so far)
163 finds so far (31 st December) Suspected carbonaceous meteorite Suspected iron meteorite Find on 27th December Find on 24th December
“Strict vigil has curbed meteorite smuggling activity in Oman”
Strict vigil has curbed meteorite smuggling activity in Oman by FAHAD AL MUKRASHI Times of Oman, November 10, 2014 ARCHIVE LINK (updated: 9 September 2020)
Thomas W. Grau – Meteoritensuche in Europa
A talk by Thomas Grau at a ‘Tag der offenen Tür 2014’ on 19 July , 2014 LINK
Who owns found meteorites in Norway?
Gull, gråstein, fossiler og meteoritter by Marianne Reusch LINK Gold, stones, fossils and meteorites by Marianne Reusch LINK (English)
