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On the Trail of the World's Great Meteorites
Field Museum, Chicago
Murchison
Australia - 1969. Carbonaceous.
Part of a fireball that exploded with tremors felt and a smoke trail. A scientifically very important meteorite, it contains organic compounds and has an odour, some say, of tar or wet hay !
Tucson
Arizona, 1850. The famous Tucson Ring iron meteorite was used as an anvil for many years.
Long Island
Kansas 1891. L6. TKW 1184 Lbs.
This large oriented meteorite was found in multiple pieces and the 4 largest pieces were fitted back together
Hamlet
Indiana, 1959.
This meteorite hit a house metal guttering and then bounced into the front yard leaving a depression, then onto the road where it was discovered 25 minutes later "still lukewarm to the touch".
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