Our Meteorite Collection

Category:   Chondrite
Class:   Ordinary
Group:   L5
Catalog #:   M54
Year Found:   1875
Location:   Iowa, USA

The night of July 19, 1875, the Homestead meteorite fell at 2215 hours in Iowa County, Iowa, USA. The total weight of the meteorite was 227.3 kilograms, and the Monnig collection is home to two individual pieces of this meteorite, one weighing 9,525.6 grams and the other at 1,143.7 grams.