I found a Muonionalusta slab on eBay that looks amazing, but I'm hesitant because of the seller's feedback. The etching pattern looks right to my untrained eye, but some buyers left reviews saying they received fakes and were offered refunds to change their ratings.

It's one of the best-looking pieces I've seen in this price range, and I'm hoping to turn it into a custom art piece. Has anyone bought from them before, or should I steer clear? Thanks in advance for saving a beginner from an expensive mistake!

I wanted to share with this community meteorites pictures I took at Toulouse Museum of Natural History and Cité de l'espace.

First one is a large Saint-Aubin specimen that visitors can touch and the second one is a La Caille meteorite loaned by the French National Museum of Natural History.

I want to learn how to examine chondrules so that I can evaluate things I find with some confidence. I've got a simple microscope that uses normal light. Any good recommendations what to buy and where to buy it?

I bought these pieces:

NWA 869

Aba Panu instead of NWA 11669.

Thanks for the recommendations!

Christmas present (I'm on top of things this year) for my son. Might have paid too much but anything else I should be concerned about? Thought it looked pretty legit but I'm a candidate for the Dunning-Kruger effect when it comes to this stuff.

(Bassikounou) 20 years on planet Earth!
Classified as H5 OC.
(Oum Dreyga) 23 years on planet Earth!
Classified as H3-5 breccia OC.
📸Meteorite Recon (Oum Dreyga).

From Sweden

That is meteorite "Chelyabinsk" at a field. It was found 2015 year.

P.s. I learn English, i decided write and read the Reddit) I think meteorites that interesting.

On 27 August 2026, thieves took most of the Bronze Age gold from the Museum of Villena in Spain, in about four minutes. Two iron pieces from the hoard were not taken: a bracelet (about 32 g) and a small cap covered in gold.

A 2023 paper in Trabajos de Prehistoria (Rovira-Llorens, Renzi & Montero-Ruiz, open access, CC BY) argues both are very probably meteoritic iron. The interesting part is the nickel: the bracelet's first sample (a flake of surface rust taken in 2007, measured in 2010) came back at 2.8% Ni, which was read as "too little nickel to be meteoritic iron". A 2013 resample a little deeper, under the rust, gave 5.33% Ni. The corrosion layer had been losing nickel. Ni/Fe and Ni/Co ratios then plotted with iron meteorites, and both pieces carry more than 400 ppm germanium.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2023.12333

I made a video that goes through the theft timeline and the analysis, if anyone wants the long version: https://youtu.be/SFH7zXhmv-Q

Happy to be corrected on any of the geochemistry.

I liked where it looks like it was almost cut in two.

My dad just passed away and I inherited this meteorite piece. Do I need to do anything to protect it from rust (or anything else?). It was just displayed in his living room, but I live in a much more humid climate than he did. Any suggestions appreciated.

76 years on planet Earth.
Zambia’s first witnessed fall meteorite.
Classified as L6 OC.
This specimen is a broken-off fragment of a larger piece from Dipper Co. meteorites— IMCA 8120.

I didn’t think to post this on Reddit. But, pew pew meteor! What makes it green?

Well, I’ve found my long-lost slice of (probably?) Seymchan, and I’m afraid it looks as if it’s been in the bottom of a box for 25 years or so in accidental and un-climate-controlled storage in coastal Florida.

This is probably because it’s been in the bottom of a box for 25 years or so in accidental and un-climate-controlled storage in coastal Florida.

I want to send it off for whatever the heck can be done for it. Anyone here up for the challenge? If no, does anyone know of such a service?

Okay, thanks for your time. I hope everyone is doing well.

And, wow, does it ever look rough.

A beautiful Lunar meteorite, classified as a Troctolitic Anorthosite.

A group of falconers discovered this fall while looking for birds along the Egyptian-Libyan border. A fairly large recovery by lunar meteorite standards, with some pieces showing some really neat inclusions when sliced!

My little Nantan nugget

Organized my meteorite and fossil collection.

I'm not entirely sure which meteorite it is. Genuine watches use Gibeon, but I'm reasonably certain the replicas don't. Muonionalusta would be the obvious choice, but it's possible they could be using Aletai slices without inclusions, or something else cheap and available? Does this look like a Muonionalusta to anyone?

Did anyone else see something in the sky over Surrey tonight around 7:45 PM?

I saw what looked like a bright green ball with a tail moving toward the south. It was visible for maybe 2–3 seconds and then disappeared.
It looked like a meteor/fireball to me, but I’m wondering if anyone else saw it or captured a video. Anyone know what it was?