Skip to content Skip to search Skip to footer
Washington University in St. Louis

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Some Meteorite Information

Menu
  • Identifying meteorites
  • Lunar meteorites

If it contains a pattern that radiates from the center, then it is not a meteorite

back to “Some Meteorite Realities”
Note that none of these rocks has a fusions crust.
Some of these things may be marcasite, not pyrite. Both minerals are iron sulfides.

back to “Some Meteorite Realities”

Prepared by: Randy L. Korotev

Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

e-mail: korotev@wustl.edu

©2025 Washington University in St. Louis