This meteorite is out of this world! (Literally) On June 5th, 1976, the Alvord meteorite was found, located on a farm that is about 13 miles outside of Alvord, Iowa (in Lyon county). During the ...

Meteorites are fragments of space rocks like asteroids or comets that survive passing through Earth's atmosphere, landing on the surface. ... 1857: Octahedrite, Laurens County; ...

The dozens of meteorites on display in Michael Farmer's room at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show include a slice of octahedrite (top center) found in the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa. Below it ...

“We noticed a cross-hatched texture present in places for the both sides [of the dagger], suggesting Widmanstätten structure, typical of [an] octahedrite iron meteorite,” Arai said. “That ...

A Sikhote-Alin meteorite, iron, coarsest octahedrite. (Maritime Territory, Siberia, Russia). Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000 ...

Each automatic watch uses material sourced from the Muonionalusta meteorite, a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted the earth in northern Scandinavia, west of the ...

A Sikhote-Alin meteorite, iron, coarsest octahedrite. (Maritime Territory, Siberia, Russia). Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000 ...