Miguel

This iron meteorite fell on Earth around 5000 years ago, near the current city of Poznan, Poland. I happen to have been on exchange with the University of Poznan and lived there for 5 months so I am specially attached to this meteorite. There are 7 craters of which 5 are lakes now. The biggest crater is 100m in diameter and 11m deep.

Millbillillie meteorite is a meteorite named after the cattle station in Western Australia on which it fell in October 1960. A fireball was observed “with sparks coming off it” by two station workers while they were opening a gate in the boundary fence on a track. It is classified as an eucrite.

A total mass of 58 tons of the Cape York meteorite has been recovered. Most masses are very large and in museums. The meteorite is named after the location where the largest fragment was found: near Cape York, in Savissivik, Meteorite Island, Greenland. The date of the meteorite fall is debated, but was probably within the last few thousand years. It was known to local Inuit for centuries, who used it as a source of iron for tools.

Mocs meteorite fell in 1892 in the current Romania. It is one of the biggest historical meteorite events in Europe. This piece comes from the Natural History Museum of Vienna, where they wrote the code.

In 2016, two brothers were searching for their camels and came across several large, dense stones west of the village of Habaswein and south of Sericho, Kenya. There are no rocks in this area, so they decided they were meteorites. They spent several weeks collecting them with engine hoists and moving them to their homes in Habaswein. Though recognized as meteorites in 2016, the masses had been known to camel-herders for decades. One village elder said that as a child, he and his brothers would play on top of the stones.

Several meteorites were recovered after a bright fireball was witnessed moving west to east and an explosion was heard near Gujba, Nigeria. It is classified as a carbonaceous bencubbinite and it is the only observed fall of this type.

The Chelyabinsk meteorite is one of the most famous meteorites due to the variety of recordings of the fall available. It is estimated than thousands of people were injured due to the shock wave that broke many windows and roofs of houses and factories in the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on February 15, 2013 at 09:20 local time. 

This is the first meteorite I ever purchased. Big investment for a college guy back then. Campo del Cielo is an iron meteorite that fell 4800 years ago in the current Argentina. Its fireball was so bright that stories about it passed from one generation to another. When Spaniards arrived at the place, they were told by the locals that the sky had fallen, hence its name.

The first meteorite I ever had. My father went to Morocco and brought home several chondrites he had bought there. Then he asked me to choose any of my liking to give it to me as a gift. Despite it was smaller than others, I chose this 50g piece because I liked the oriented shape.