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Loading contentThe small bodies that reach the ground — how meteors become meteorites, how they are classified, where they come from, and the fireballs and craters they leave behind. Built on real Meteoritical Bulletin data that reuses the platform's asteroids, impact events, and meteor showers; nothing is fabricated.
The largest carbonaceous chondrite found on Earth, which fell in 1969 and became the most-studied meteorite in history — its calcium–aluminium inclusions are among the oldest solid material in the Solar System.
The howardite–eucrite–diogenite clan of basaltic achondrites, whose spectra match the asteroid Vesta so closely that they are considered pieces of its crust, delivered to Earth after impacts.
The most common meteorites: primitive, undifferentiated stony rocks that preserve material from the birth of the Solar System, subdivided into carbonaceous, ordinary, and enstatite groups.
One of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, visited by NASA's Dawn.