The first of these was the Příbram meteorite, which fell in Czechoslovakia ( now the Czech Republic ) in 1959.

The Murchison meteorite that fell near Murchison, Victoria, Australia in 1969 was found to contain over 90 different amino acids, nineteen of which are found in Earth life.

* The Denver meteorite of 1967, which fell in Colorado in July 1967 ( see meteorite falls )

According to Pliny the Elder, that same year a meteorite fell in the town of Aegospotami, in Thrace.

** the Bloomington meteorite of 1938, which fell in Illinois, United States ( see Meteorite falls )

* the Frankfort meteorite of 1868, which fell in Alabama, United States ( see meteorite falls )

* The Benton meteorite of 1949, which fell in New Brunswick, Canada ( see Meteorite falls )

* the Farmington meteorite of 1890, which fell in Kansas, United States ( see meteorite falls )

** the Johnstown meteorite of 1924, which fell in Colorado, United States ( see meteorite falls )

" He was referring to Yale chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman's investigation of an 1807 meteorite that fell in Weston, Connecticut.

The first of these was the Pribram meteorite, which fell in Czechoslovakia ( now the Czech Republic ) in 1959.

Tissint, the most recent martian meteorite known to have landed on Earth, fell in July, 2011.

They are named after the Shergotty meteorite, which fell at Sherghati, India in 1865.

There are 13 known nakhlites, the first of which, the Nakhla meteorite, fell in El-Nakhla, Alexandria, Egypt in 1911 and had an estimated weight of 10 kg.

The first chassignite, the Chassigny meteorite, fell at Chassigny, Haute-Marne, France in 1815.

* Barcelona ( meteorite ), which fell in Catalonia, Spain in 1704

Farmer suggested in two " biographies " of fictional characters ( Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life ), that the real meteorite ( Wold Cottage meteorite ) which fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, was radioactive and caused genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach.

The Wold Cottage meteorite ( also called the Wold Newton meteorite ) fell near to Wold Cottage farm in 1795, a few miles away from the hamlet of Wold Newton in Yorkshire, England.

A large meteorite fell near Buena Vista on March 28, 1859, causing some panic in the area.

A summary of meteorite data, prepared by Whipple ( 1958 ) on the basis of photographic, visual, and radar evidence, is given in Table 5-1.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

These conditions are met in two places on Earth ; in the lithospheric mantle below relatively stable continental plates, and at the site of a meteorite strike.

A lavish temple called the Elagabalium was built on the east face of the Palatine Hill to house Elagabal, who was represented by a black conical meteorite from Emesa.

The latter mineral can only be formed on Earth by meteorite impacts, and its structure has been composed so much that it had changed from a silicate structure to that of rutile ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >).

More generally, a meteorite on the surface of any celestial body is a natural object that has come from elsewhere in space.

Most meteorite falls are recovered on the basis of eye-witness accounts of the fireball or the actual impact of the object on the ground, or both.

Therefore, despite the fact that meteorites actually fall with virtually equal probability everywhere on Earth, verified meteorite falls tend to be concentrated in areas with high human population densities such as Europe, Japan, and northern India.

The images were used both to determine the location of the stones on the ground and, more significantly, to calculate for the first time an accurate orbit for a recovered meteorite.

The reason there are now over 30, 000 meteorite finds in the world's collections started with the discovery by Harvey H. Nininger that meteorites are much more common on the surface of the Earth than was previously thought.

Structures resembling a organism | life form on meteorite fragment ALH84001, discovered in Antarctica

In this he compiled all available data on several meteorite finds and falls concluded that they must have their origins in outer space.

Biot's study, initiated by the French Academy of Sciences, was compelled by a meteorite fall of thousands of meteorites on April 26, 1803 from the skies of L ' Aigle, France.

The Hodges meteorite, or Sylacauga meteorite, is currently on exhibit at the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

* Allan Hills 84001 – Mars meteorite that was claimed to prove the existence of life on Mars.

A 34 ton fragment called " Ahnighito ", is exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History ; the largest meteorite on exhibit in any museum.

* Sikhote-Alin – Massive iron meteorite impact event that occurred on February 12, 1947.

Apart from meteorites fallen onto the Earth, two tiny fragments of asteroids were found among the samples collected on the Moon ; these were the Bench Crater meteorite ( Apollo 12, 1969 ) and the Hadley Rille meteorite ( Apollo 15, 1971 ).

Furthermore the Opportunity rover discovered the " Heat Shield Rock " meteorite on Mars in addition to five similar iron meteorites.

* Vredefort Crater in South Africa, the largest known impact crater on Earth ( 300 km diameter from an estimated 10 km wide meteorite ).

A separate fragment of the Orgueil meteorite ( kept in a sealed glass jar since its discovery ) was found in 1965 to have a seed capsule embedded in it, whilst the original glassy layer on the outside remained undisturbed.

Kaali is a small group of nine unique meteorite craters on Saaremaa.