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#Chondrites

The most common meteorites: primitive stony rocks full of chondrules from the birth of the Solar System.

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Books (4)

  • Meteorite Classification: The Professional's GuideA working reference for classifiers, curators and postgraduate researchers. It sets out current practice for every meteorite type: the fifte
  • The Meteorite Collector's HandbookA meteorite collection can hold pieces of asteroids, Vesta, the Moon and Mars. This handbook explains every major class, from ordinary chond
  • Meteorites ExplainedThe oldest solids in meteorites formed 4,567 million years ago, before any planet. Meteorites Explained shows how scientists know: from the
  • Meteoritics for StudentsMeteorites are the oldest rocks we can hold, and reading them uses nuclear physics, chemistry, geology and orbital mechanics. This guide run

Famous meteorites (32)

  • AbeeA 107-kilogram enstatite chondrite that fell on a Canadian wheat field in 1952 – a rare sample of rock formed with almost no oxygen.
  • AllendeThe meteorite that fell on a Mexican village months before Apollo 11 – and turned out to hold the oldest solids in the Solar System.
  • BarwellOn Christmas Eve 1965 a shower of stones fell on a Leicestershire village, the largest meteorite fall recorded in Britain.
  • BenešovA fireball photographed over the Czech Republic in 1991 whose meteorites were found only 20 years later – and turned out to be a mixture of
  • BjurböleA meteorite that crashed through sea ice in Finland in 1899 and is so crumbly that its chondrules fall out like marbles.
  • CarancasIn 2007 a stony meteorite blasted a crater near Lake Titicaca – something scientists had not expected a rock its size to do.
  • ChelyabinskThe 2013 airburst over Russia that shattered thousands of windows and reminded the world that asteroid impacts still happen.
  • EnsisheimThe stone that fell on Alsace in 1492 is the oldest European meteorite with a known fall date that still survives.
  • Gao-GuenieA shower of stones over Burkina Faso in 1960 that became one of the most widely distributed meteorites in the world.
  • HolbrookIn 1912 thousands of stones rained down near a railway station in the Arizona desert – and people are still finding them.
  • JilinIn 1976 a meteorite shower over north-east China included a single stone of about 1,770 kilograms – the largest stony meteorite ever seen to
  • JuvinasA single basaltic stone that fell in southern France in 1821 and helped show that some asteroids once had volcanoes.
  • KaidunA small stone that fell on a military base in Yemen in 1980 and turned out to be a jigsaw of many different worlds.
  • KapoetaA howardite that fell in South Sudan in 1942 – a piece of the battered surface of the asteroid Vesta.
  • KošiceA 2010 fireball over Slovakia caught on security cameras, whose recovered stones were traced back to their orbit in space.
  • L'AigleThe 1803 shower of stones in Normandy that finally convinced scientists rocks really do fall from the sky. Today it seems obvious that rocks
  • MbaleIn 1992 hundreds of stones rained on a town in eastern Uganda – and one small piece bounced off a banana tree onto a boy's head.
  • MillbillillieA eucrite that fell in the Western Australian outback in 1960, famous for its glossy black fusion crust.
  • MurchisonA stone that fell on an Australian town in 1969, packed with the chemical building blocks of life.
  • Norton CountyA shower of pale, almost iron-free stones over the Kansas–Nebraska border in 1948, including the largest aubrite ever found.
  • OrgueilA crumbly black meteorite from 1864 whose chemistry is the closest match on Earth to the Sun itself.
  • OzerkiA bright fireball over Russia in June 2018 that delivered fresh stones to villagers and scientists within days.
  • PeekskillThe 1992 fireball filmed by football fans across the eastern United States that ended up in the boot of a parked car.
  • PultuskIn 1868 a fireball over Poland released one of the largest showers of stones ever recorded – tens of thousands of them.
  • StannernA shower of basaltic stones that fell on Moravia in 1808 and gave its name to a distinctive kind of lava from Vesta.
  • Sutter's MillIn 2012 a rare carbon-rich meteorite fell on the very spot where the California Gold Rush began – and weather radar helped find it.
  • SylacaugaIn 1954 a meteorite crashed through a roof in Alabama and struck Ann Hodges – the first well-documented person hit by a meteorite.
  • Tagish LakeA fragile carbon-rich meteorite that fell onto a frozen Canadian lake in 2000 and was collected without being touched by bare hands.
  • TatahouineA meteorite that shattered into green crystals in the Tunisian desert in 1931 – a fragment from deep inside the asteroid Vesta.
  • WestonThe 1807 Connecticut fall investigated by two Yale professors – the first meteorite fall in the Americas to be studied scientifically.
  • WinchcombeThe 2021 fireball filmed across Britain that delivered the UK's first carbonaceous chondrite – onto a family's driveway.
  • Wold CottageEngland's largest single meteorite landed beside a Yorkshire ploughman in 1795 – and helped prove that stones fall from the sky.

Meteorite types (48)

  • AcapulcoitesFine-grained rocks that only just began to melt. Named after Acapulco in Mexico, which fell in 1976, acapulcoites are fine-grained rocks of
  • AchondritesIgneous stones from bodies that melted: asteroids, the Moon and Mars. An achondrite is a stony meteorite without chondrules.
  • AngritesThe oldest volcanic rocks known, from a vanished early planetesimal. Named after Angra dos Reis in Brazil, which fell in 1869, angrites are
  • Asteroidal achondritesFully melted, differentiated rocks from the crusts and mantles of asteroids, Vesta above all.
  • AubritesPale, almost iron-free rocks made of enstatite, from an extremely oxygen-poor world.
  • BrachinitesOlivine-rich rocks from an asteroid whose melt drained away. Named after Brachina in South Australia, brachinites are made mostly of iron-ri
  • Carbonaceous chondritesRare, often dark chondrites rich in carbon, water-bearing minerals and organic compounds, including the building blocks of life.
  • CB chondrites (bencubbinites)More than half metal, with chondrules made in a planet-sized collision. CB chondrites, named after Bencubbin in Australia, are more than 50%
  • CH chondrites'High metal' carbonaceous chondrites with tiny chondrules. CH chondrites are rich in iron-nickel metal, about 20% of the rock by vol
  • ChassignitesOlivine-rich Martian rocks; the first known fell in France in 1815. Chassignites are dunites, rocks made almost entirely of olivine, that fo
  • ChondritesPrimitive stones that never melted, made of the first solids of the Solar System. The most common meteorites of all.
  • CI chondritesThe chemically most primitive rocks known: their make-up matches the Sun's. CI chondrites, named after Ivuna in Tanzania, match the comp
  • CK chondritesHeated, highly oxidised carbonaceous chondrites, cousins of the CVs. CK chondrites, named after Karoonda in Australia, are unusual among car
  • CM chondritesWater-rich carbonaceous chondrites full of organic molecules, Murchison and Winchcombe among them.
  • CO chondritesSmall-chondrule carbonaceous chondrites, close relatives of the CMs. CO chondrites, named after Ornans in France, have very small chondrules
  • CR chondritesMetal-bearing carbonaceous chondrites with some of the most pristine organic matter known.
  • CV chondritesLarge chondrules and big white inclusions, the oldest solids in the Solar System. Allende is the classic.
  • DiogenitesPyroxene-rich rocks from deep inside Vesta. Diogenites are coarse-grained rocks made mostly of orthopyroxene, sometimes with olivine.
  • Eagle Station pallasitesA tiny grouplet of pallasites with iron-rich olivine and nickel-rich metal, from a separate parent body.
  • EH chondritesHigh-iron enstatite chondrites. EH chondrites have more metal and smaller chondrules than EL chondrites, and contain niningerite, a magnesiu
  • EL chondritesLow-iron enstatite chondrites. EL chondrites have less metal than EH chondrites and contain alabandite, a manganese sulphide, instead of nin
  • Enstatite chondritesChondrites formed with almost no oxygen to spare, full of rare minerals unknown on Earth's surface.
  • EucritesVolcanic basalt from the crust of Vesta. Eucrites are basalts and gabbros from Vesta's crust, made mainly of pigeonite (a calcium-poor p
  • H chondritesHigh-iron ordinary chondrites: about a third of all meteorites seen to fall. H chondrites have the highest total iron of the ordinary chondr
  • HED meteorites: pieces of VestaThe howardites, eucrites and diogenites: crust and mantle rocks from the giant asteroid 4 Vesta. The meteorites this site is named after.
  • HowarditesBroken rubble from the surface of asteroid Vesta, mixing crust and mantle rocks. Howardites are regolith breccias: rocks made from the broke
  • IIE ironsIrons full of silicate fragments, possibly from asteroid Hebe. IIE irons are octahedrites of varying coarseness that often contain silicate
  • K chondrites (Kakangari grouplet)A tiny grouplet with a mix of features found in no other chondrite group. K chondrites are named after Kakangari in India, which fell in 189
  • L chondritesLow-iron ordinary chondrites: the single most common group of meteorites. L chondrites have less metal than H chondrites, typically 4% to 10
  • LL chondritesLow iron, low metal: the ordinary chondrites matched to asteroid Itokawa. LL chondrites have the least metal of the ordinary chondrites, onl
  • LodranitesCoarse-grained leftovers after melt drained away. Named after Lodran in Pakistan, which fell in 1868, lodranites are coarser-grained than ac
  • Lunar basalts and gabbrosDark volcanic rock from the lunar maria, the Moon's great lava plains. Lunar basalts are pieces of the dark lava plains, the maria, that
  • Feldspathic lunar meteoritesPale breccias from the ancient lunar highlands, the most common kind of Moon rock to reach Earth.
  • Lunar meteoritesRocks from the Moon, found mainly in deserts and Antarctica. Lunar meteorites are pieces of the Moon blasted off by impacts.
  • Mingled lunar brecciasBreccias that mix highland and mare rock, from the borders between the two. Mingled breccias contain both pale highland material and dark ma
  • Martian meteoritesRocks from Mars, recognised by gas from the Martian atmosphere trapped inside them.
  • ALH 84001 and other Martian rocksThe ancient Martian rock once claimed to hold fossils, and 'Black Beauty'. Allan Hills 84001, found in Antarctica in December 1984,
  • MesosideritesJumbled breccias of metal and basalt, made in a violent collision. Mesosiderites are breccias of roughly equal parts iron-nickel metal and s
  • NakhlitesAugite-rich volcanic rocks from Mars, about 1.3 billion years old. Nakhlites, named after Nakhla in Egypt (fell 1911), are made mainly of au
  • Ordinary chondritesThe everyday meteorite: four in every five falls. Three groups, H, L and LL, from at least three asteroids.
  • Planetary achondritesRocks knocked off the Moon and Mars by impacts. A few achondrites come not from asteroids but from much larger worlds.
  • Primitive achondritesRocks that began to melt but were never fully processed: halfway between chondrites and igneous rocks.
  • R chondrites (rumurutiites)Highly oxidised chondrites with almost no metal. R chondrites are named after Rumuruti in Kenya, the only one seen to fall (1934).
  • ShergottitesThe most common Martian meteorites: young basaltic and olivine-rich rocks. Shergottites, named after Shergotty in India (fell 1865), make up
  • Stony meteoritesMeteorites made mostly of silicate minerals. They are by far the most common kind seen to fall.
  • Ungrouped achondritesMelted rocks that match no known group: each may be the only sample of its own world. Some achondrites fit none of the named groups.
  • UreilitesCarbon-rich rocks with diamonds, from an asteroid shattered by a giant impact. One was tracked in space before it hit Earth.
  • WinonaitesPrimitive achondrites related to the silicate inclusions in IAB irons. Named after the Winona meteorite, found buried in a Sinagua ruin in A

Space missions (6)

  • HayabusaThe first asteroid sample ever returned, which proved where ordinary chondrites come from.
  • Hayabusa2Pieces of a carbon-rich asteroid that turned out to be the purest primitive rock ever studied. Hayabusa2 reached the asteroid Ryugu in June
  • HeraEurope's detective mission to study the asteroid moon that DART struck. DART showed that an asteroid can be nudged, but telescopes on Ea
  • MMX (Martian Moons eXploration)Japan's mission to bring back the first sample from a moon of Mars. Mars has two small, dark moons, Phobos, about 22 kilometres across,
  • NEAR ShoemakerThe first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid, and the first to land on one. NEAR, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, was the first spa
  • OSIRIS-RExThe largest asteroid sample ever returned, full of salts, water-formed minerals and life's building blocks.

Meteorite minerals (67)

  • AkimotoiteA high-pressure form of pyroxene with the ilmenite structure, formed in shocked meteorites.
  • AlbiteSodium-rich plagioclase feldspar, which grows in ordinary chondrites as they are heated inside their parent asteroids.
  • AndraditeA calcium–iron garnet that grew during alteration in CV chondrites such as Allende.
  • AragoniteA second form of calcium carbonate, found in some CM chondrites. Aragonite has the same chemistry as calcite but a denser structure.
  • AsimowiteThe iron-rich partner of wadsleyite: a dense form of fayalite made by shock. Asimowite has the structure of wadsleyite, the high-pressure fo
  • AwaruiteA nickel-rich iron alloy found in some oxidised carbonaceous chondrites. Awaruite is an alloy with about three nickel atoms for each iron at
  • BrearleyiteA chlorine-bearing calcium aluminate formed when fluids altered an ancient inclusion.
  • BridgmaniteThe most abundant mineral inside Earth, found and named only thanks to a shocked meteorite.
  • CalciteCalcium carbonate that grew from water inside carbonaceous asteroids, and also forms as meteorites weather on Earth.
  • ChlorapatiteA chlorine-bearing calcium phosphate in ordinary chondrites, and a record of water and gas in their parent bodies.
  • ChromiteA black iron–chromium oxide found in almost every stony meteorite, and the survivor that reveals fossil meteorites.
  • Native copperTiny grains of pure copper found next to troilite and metal in ordinary chondrites. Native copper is the element copper in metallic form.
  • CronstedtiteAn iron-rich serpentine mineral typical of the least altered CM chondrites. Cronstedtite is a member of the serpentine group in which iron,
  • DiopsideA calcium–magnesium pyroxene found in the oldest solids of the Solar System and in many chondrules.
  • DjerfisheriteA potassium-bearing sulphide with chlorine, found in enstatite chondrites. Djerfisherite is a complex sulphide of potassium, iron, copper an
  • DmitryivanoviteA dense form of calcium aluminate found in the oldest inclusions of carbonaceous chondrites.
  • DolomiteA calcium magnesium carbonate common in CI chondrites and in the Ryugu and Bennu samples.
  • ElgoresyiteA dense magnesium–iron silicate with an unusual ratio of metal to silicon, found in a shock vein of the Suizhou chondrite.
  • EnstatiteThe magnesium pyroxene that dominates enstatite chondrites and aubrites, and many chondrules.
  • EpsomiteEpsom salt, a magnesium sulphate that crystallises on CI chondrites in collections. Epsomite is magnesium sulphate with seven water molecule
  • FerrihydriteA poorly crystalline iron oxyhydroxide found in the matrix of CI chondrites. Ferrihydrite is a hydrous iron oxide with very small, poorly or
  • ForsteriteThe magnesium-rich end of the olivine series, the olivine of primitive chondrules and the oldest Solar System grains.
  • GrossiteA calcium aluminium oxide found in rare, extremely refractory inclusions in CH and CR chondrites.
  • GrossmaniteA pyroxene containing titanium in an unusual state, found in the oldest inclusions in Allende.
  • GypsumA calcium sulphate found in white veins in CI chondrites, partly grown after they reached Earth. Gypsum is a soft, water-bearing sulphate of
  • HaliteRock salt, found as purple crystals with trapped water in two ordinary chondrites and as salts in the Bennu sample. Halite is sodium chlorid
  • HaxoniteA nickel-rich iron carbide found in iron meteorites and some chondrites. Haxonite is a carbide containing more nickel and less carbon than c
  • HedenbergiteThe iron-rich calcium pyroxene, which grew in carbonaceous chondrites as fluids altered the rock.
  • HemleyiteThe iron-rich form of akimotoite: pyroxene composition packed into the ilmenite structure by shock.
  • Hibonite-(Fe)An iron-rich hibonite that formed when an ancient inclusion in Allende was altered.
  • HiroseiteThe iron-rich partner of bridgmanite: pyroxene composition in the perovskite structure.
  • KamaciteLow-nickel iron metal, the main mineral of most iron meteorites and the metal flecks in chondrites.
  • KeiliteAn iron-rich magnesium sulphide that grew from niningerite during impacts on enstatite chondrites.
  • KrotiteA calcium aluminium oxide found in an unusual refractory inclusion, until then known only from cement.
  • KushiroiteAn aluminium-rich pyroxene, long known only from laboratory experiments, found in refractory inclusions.
  • LinguniteThe dense hollandite-structured form of feldspar, found in shock veins of chondrites.
  • MagnetiteThe strongly magnetic iron oxide that grew in water inside carbonaceous asteroids and forms the crust of cosmic spherules.
  • MajindeiteA magnesium molybdenum oxide formed when tiny metal nuggets in Allende were oxidised.
  • MajoriteA garnet made from pyroxene at high pressure, in which silicon takes an unusual place.
  • MeliliteA calcium aluminium silicate series, gehlenite to åkermanite, that makes up much of the white inclusions in Allende.
  • MerrihueiteAn iron-rich osumilite-group silicate found in a primitive ordinary chondrite. Merrihueite is the iron- and potassium-rich partner of roedde
  • NephelineA sodium aluminium silicate that replaces melilite and anorthite in CAIs that were later altered.
  • NieriteSilicon nitride, some grains of which are stardust from exploding stars. Nierite is a compound of silicon and nitrogen.
  • NiningeriteA magnesium sulphide found only in EH enstatite chondrites. Niningerite is a magnesium–iron sulphide with the same cubic structure as table
  • OhtaniiteA wadsleyite-like magnesium silicate with empty sites in its structure, crystallised from a shock melt of pyroxene composition.
  • OldhamiteCalcium sulphide, which exists only where there was almost no oxygen, as in enstatite meteorites. Oldhamite is calcium sulphide.
  • OlivineThe green magnesium–iron silicate that is the most common mineral in stony meteorites and the gem crystals of pallasites.
  • PentlanditeAn iron–nickel sulphide found with pyrrhotite in carbonaceous chondrites. Pentlandite is a sulphide of iron and nickel in roughly equal amou
  • PerryiteA nickel silicide-phosphide found in the metal of enstatite chondrites and aubrites. Perryite is a compound of nickel and iron with silicon
  • PlagioclaseThe feldspar series from sodium albite to calcium anorthite, the light-coloured mineral of basalts and lunar highlands.
  • PoirieriteA rare form of olivine composition, halfway in structure between olivine and its high-pressure forms, found in shock veins of chondrites.
  • PyrrhotiteA magnetic iron sulphide with a little less iron than troilite, common in carbonaceous chondrites.
  • RingwooditeThe dense, spinel-structured form of olivine, made by shock in meteorites and found deep inside Earth.
  • RoedderiteA rare sodium–potassium magnesium silicate of the osumilite group, first found in an enstatite chondrite.
  • SaponiteA swelling clay mineral intergrown with serpentine in CI chondrites and in samples from Ryugu and Bennu.
  • SerpentineA water-bearing sheet silicate that makes up much of the matrix of CM and CI chondrites.
  • Silica minerals: tridymite, cristobalite and quartzSilicon dioxide in its different crystal forms, found in eucrites, enstatite chondrites and lunar basalts. Silica is silicon dioxide.
  • SinoiteA silicon oxynitride found in enstatite chondrites. Sinoite is a compound of silicon with nitrogen and oxygen.
  • SodaliteA chlorine-bearing sodium aluminium silicate formed by alteration in the CAIs of CV chondrites.
  • SylvitePotassium chloride, found with halite in the Monahans and Zag chondrites. Sylvite is potassium chloride, a salt that crystallises from brine
  • TochiliniteA layered iron sulphide and hydroxide that forms with serpentine in CM chondrites.
  • TuiteThe high-pressure form of the meteorite phosphate merrillite, found in shock veins. Tuite is calcium phosphate with a dense structure.
  • WadsleyiteA high-pressure form of olivine, between olivine and ringwoodite, found in shocked meteorites.
  • WangdaodeiteA high-pressure form of ilmenite with the lithium niobate structure. Wangdaodeite has the chemistry of ilmenite, iron titanium oxide, but a
  • WassoniteA titanium sulphide found as tiny grains in an Antarctic enstatite chondrite. Wassonite is titanium sulphide.
  • WollastoniteA calcium silicate found in altered CAIs and chondrules of CV chondrites. Wollastonite is a chain silicate of calcium.
  • XieiteA dense, high-pressure form of chromite found in a shocked Chinese chondrite. Xieite has the chemistry of chromite but a denser structure.

Glossary (116)

Questions and answers (78)

Impact events (1)

Asteroids (3)

  • ItokawaItokawa was the first asteroid from which samples were brought back to Earth. Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft arrived in September 2005, stu
  • JunoJuno was the third asteroid found, discovered by Karl Harding at Lilienthal, near Bremen, in September 1804.
  • RyuguRyugu is a dark, carbon-rich asteroid about 900 metres across, shaped like a spinning top with a ridge around its equator.

Micrometeorites (5)

People (11)

  • Ashley KingThe Natural History Museum scientist who collected the Winchcombe meteorite from a family's driveway in 2021 and helped lead its study.
  • Brian MasonThe Smithsonian curator who classified thousands of Antarctic meteorites and spotted that the first lunar meteorite looked like Apollo highl
  • Edward AndersThe Chicago cosmochemist whose table of Solar System element abundances became a standard, and whose team first found stardust older than th
  • Gustav RoseThe Berlin mineralogist who sorted meteorites into families in 1863 and coined the names chondrite and howardite.
  • Henry Clifton SorbyThe Sheffield scientist who invented the study of rocks in thin slices and described chondrules as frozen drops of fiery rain.
  • Jacques-Louis de BournonThe French mineralogist who described the round grains and metal in fallen stones alongside Edward Howard in 1802.
  • John WoodThe planetary scientist who co-created the petrologic types of chondrites and first proposed that the young Moon was covered in a magma ocea
  • Klaus KeilThe pioneer of the electron microprobe in meteorite science, who helped show that ordinary chondrites form three distinct groups.
  • Renji NaruseThe Japanese glaciologist who found the first meteorite on the Yamato ice field in December 1969, opening up Antarctica's meteorite trea
  • Robert HutchisonThe Natural History Museum curator who wrote a standard textbook on meteorites and helped compile the world catalogue of meteorites.
  • The Wilcock familyThe Gloucestershire family who found black fragments of the Winchcombe meteorite on their driveway the morning after it fell in 2021.

Britain and Ireland (21)

  • The Aldsworth meteoriteA stone that landed in a field of oats in the Cotswolds after a fireball was seen over Cirencester.
  • The Appley Bridge meteoriteA 15-kilogram stone that fell after a fireball over Lancashire in the first autumn of the First World War.
  • The Ashdon meteoriteA stone seen to fall silently into an Essex field, dug up three days later from 60 centimetres down.
  • The Beddgelert meteoriteA stone that crashed through the roof of a hotel in Snowdonia. On 21 September 1949, after loud explosions, a stone of about 790 grams smash
  • The Bovedy meteoriteA fireball seen from Wales to Ulster that dropped a rare, little-altered chondrite.
  • The Crumlin meteoriteA stone that thumped into a County Antrim farm and was dug out still warm within a quarter of an hour.
  • The Danebury meteoriteA small meteorite dug up by archaeologists from a pit inside an Iron Age hillfort.
  • The Dundrum meteoriteA warm stone found half buried in a potato drill in Tipperary, now on show in Dublin.
  • The Glatton meteoriteA stone that fell into a hedge while a man was working in his vegetable garden. Around midday on 5 May 1991, a man working in his garden in
  • The Glenrothes meteoriteScotland's first meteorite find: a few weathered fragments, forgotten for months in a fishing jacket.
  • The High Possil meteoriteScotland's first recorded meteorite, which fell beside quarry workers on the edge of Glasgow.
  • The Killeter meteoriteA shower of small stones over County Tyrone in 1844, of which only a few fragments survive.
  • The Launton meteoriteAn evening fireball and a triple bang over Oxfordshire, then a stone of just over a kilogram.
  • The Leighlinbridge meteoriteFour golf-ball-sized stones that fell after a fireball as bright as the full Moon over Carlow.
  • The Limerick meteoriteThe largest meteorite fall in Irish history: a shower of stones over County Limerick in 1813.
  • The Middlesbrough meteoriteA stone that landed beside a railway line, watched by the workers who dug it out. At 3.35 in the afternoon of 14 March 1881, railway workers
  • The Mooresfort meteoriteA stone so hot it could not be handled two hours after landing near workmen on a Tipperary roof.
  • The Perth meteoriteA stone that fell on Perth's riverside park in a thunderstorm, of which only a few grams were saved.
  • The Pontlyfni meteoriteThe only winonaite ever seen to fall anywhere in the world, recovered on the Welsh coast.
  • The Strathmore meteoriteFour stones over the Scottish valley of Strathmore, one through the roof of a lodge.
  • The Wiltshire meteoriteBritain's heaviest meteorite: a weathered 93-kilogram stone that sat in a country house garden for generations.

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