On the subject of amazing meteorites, here’s an iron that fell in Poland a week ago.
Those marks are “flow lines”, caused by molten metal streaming off the rock in the supersonic “wind”.
The Ohio meteorite has been confirmed to be a eucrite and officially named Wadsworth.
Huh, I didn’t know that meteorites got official names.
You’ve encountered many of them before, including in this thread, you just haven’t thought about it. Chelyabinsk. Sikhote-Alin. Peekskill. Canyon Diablo.
Yeah, but I thought those were just labels, not names. Like, “the meteorite that fell in Chelyabinsk”. You wouldn’t refer to the space-rock itself as “Chelyabinsk”; it’s “the Chelyabinsk meteor”.
I hope Wadsworth is the name of a nearby town or place or somesuch.
Otherwise we’ll soon have meteorites named “George” or “the FedEx LoanDepot meteor”
It is.
There are rules and guidelines for naming meteorites:
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/docs/nc-guidelines.htm#_Toc447369163
Many of the names are interesting, like Dishchii’bikoh Ts’iłsǫǫsé Tsee.
Looking at my list of samples in my collection, some of the names are
Bassikounou
Carancas
Dong Ukimqin
Gao Genie
Ghubara
Kobe
Oum Rokba
Saratov
Songyuan
Tamdakht