H chondrites are high in iron, with up to 20% of their weight in free iron. This means they are strongly attracted to magnets.
Class: H3
Found: Namibia in 1996
H chondrites contain high levels of iron - a quarter to a third of their total weight, and 15-20% of that is free iron. A farmer found this meteorite and used it to build a wall before he knew what he had!
Class: H4
Found: Northwest Africa, 2005
You can easily see the shiny iron chondrules; a magnet is strongly attracted to this specimen. A farmer in Tulia, Texas, plowed this meteorite up.
Class: H3-4 Brecchiated
Found: Tulia, Texas in 1917
This specimen has many small chondrules in a dark brown matrix of material.
Class: H4-5
Found: Lesotho on 7/21/2002
Thuathe was a fall observed in 2002 in southern Africa. A 15-second-long boom was heard and pieces of the meteorite were spread across the "strewn field" 5 miles long and a mile wide.
On August 4 or 5, 1998, a fireball was witnessed on a mountain in Zag, Morocco. The meteorite was recovered and classified as H3-6. The photo at right is taken at a slightly different angle to highlight the metal chondrules.
Class: H3-6
Found: Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara in 1998
Note: All meteorite photographs include a 1 cm scaling cube for sizing reference. Click on the image to expand.
