Your Meteorites

[Orthopyrox]

Hello

Why not also trainee topics related to meteorites here? So I suggest through this post expose our collection of meteorites.For me , i have a few small fragments of ordinary chondrites, that is an example on the photo, and you ? i think u have a good examples?

[Guest solius symbiosus]

Nice chondrite. I would love to see a thin section of that.

I don't have any meteorites, but here are maps of a couple of the impact sites I have visited.

Jeptha Knob Cryptoexplosive

Versailles Cryptoexplosive

[Orthopyrox]

i have a thin section of chondrites, but i can't have it in picture .

can u tell me exactelly the situation of the places where you visited those impacts?

thank u

[Guest solius symbiosus]

I have visited several, but those two are close to where I live. Both are probably pre-Silurian, and extremely weathered. The craters are long gone. The Jeptha knob is about 6 km in diameter; the Versailles is about 1.5 km in diameter.

There is virtually nothing left of the Versailles except a small rise in elevation. The Jeptha Knob is a spectacular hill that "sticks out like a sore thumb". Most people that pass it, have no ideal what they are seeing, but it is obvious to all that it is something unusual.

Their locations are:

Jeptha Knob-38°10'35" N; 85°7'10" W

Versailles-38°05'35" N; 81°41'00"W

[Orthopyrox]

thank you for these indications

[bobthemoose]

seymchan, russia. 30 kgs

[bobthemoose]

same specimen

[fig rocks]

Here's a few more for your perusal. #1 Sikhote-Alin meteorite from Russia. #2&3 Libyan Desert glass, #4&5 Canyon Diablo meteorite.

[Phoenixflood]

All very nice

We have an underwater impact crater here in MD at the mouth of the bay. I wonder if anyone really has taken a good look down there, hmm?