Vaca Muerta, Taltal Dist., Chile

Found 1861

Mesosiderite-A1, 112g

Mesosiderites are thought to have formed when a silicate rich asteroid collided at high speed with a metal rich asteroid smashing together and mixing their content to form this unusual meteorite. Vaca Muerta is one of only six approved meteorites classified as Mesosiderite-A1.

This end piece shows the beautiful mixture of metal and stone.

Vaca Muerta, Taltal Dist., Chile

Found 1861

Mesosiderite-A1, 112g

Mesosiderites are thought to have formed when a silicate rich asteroid collided at high speed with a metal rich asteroid smashing together and mixing their content to form this unusual meteorite. Vaca Muerta is one of only six approved meteorites classified as Mesosiderite-A1.

This end piece shows the beautiful mixture of metal and stone.

Vaca Muerta, Taltal Dist., Chile

Found 1861

Mesosiderite-A1, 112g

Mesosiderites are thought to have formed when a silicate rich asteroid collided at high speed with a metal rich asteroid smashing together and mixing their content to form this unusual meteorite. Vaca Muerta is one of only six approved meteorites classified as Mesosiderite-A1.

This end piece shows the beautiful mixture of metal and stone.

Window Butte, Utah

Single 187g specimen found in 1991

Primitive Achondrite, Brachinite, 1.6g

This is one of only eighteen approved meteorites classified as Brachinites. The Meteorite Nomenclature Committee renamed this meteorite Nova 003 because of uncertainty in the discovery location and the Meteoritical Bulletin Database gives "Australia?" as its origin. The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System lists it as "Window Butte, a new 187-g find (1991) from Utah" in an article, "Brachinites: A New Primitive Achondrite Group" published in 1992, one year after the meteorite's discovery.