Meteorite Finds

A Martian meteorite recovered from Antarctica in 1984 and made famous in 1996 by a disputed claim that microscopic structures within it might be evidence of ancient Martian microbial life.

The first meteorite recognised as a piece of the Moon, recovered from Antarctica in 1982 — its match to Apollo samples proved that lunar rocks can be delivered to Earth as meteorites.

A pallasite strewn field in Kansas — pallasites are among the most beautiful meteorites, with olive-green olivine crystals suspended in a matrix of nickel-iron.

An ancient field of large iron meteorites in Argentina, known to indigenous peoples for millennia, whose fragments include some of the heaviest single meteorite masses ever recovered.

The iron meteorite responsible for Barringer Crater (Meteor Crater) in Arizona; fragments are scattered around the rim of the crater it formed some 50,000 years ago.

The largest known intact meteorite and the largest naturally-occurring piece of iron near the Earth's surface, an ~60-tonne slab still lying where it was found in Namibia.

Nicknamed 'Black Beauty', a Martian breccia containing the most water of any Mars meteorite and some of the oldest Martian crust yet sampled.

The largest meteorite ever found in the United States, an ~15-tonne iron sacred to the Clackamas people of the Willamette Valley.