"Meteorites: fragments and history of the solar system"

The MM Gerdau - Museum of Mines and Metal, together with the Museum of Earth Sciences, from the Geological Survey of Brazil (MCTer - SGB-CPRM), presented the exhibition "Meteorites: fragments and history of the solar system - the collection of the Museum of Earth Sciences". 

The exhibition was in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, at the Pink Building, in the Liberty Square, from October 20, 2022 to January 29, 2023. Its featured 21 meteorite's samples, 20 of which came from the collection of the MCTer and one specimen from MM Gerdau. 

The Bocaiuva Meteorite, which weighs 64.3kg and measures 33x44x17cm, has an extremely high density compared to terrestrial rocks. The "Bocaiuva" was discovered in the 1960's in Brazil.

The Coahuila meteorite is an iron hexahedrite meteorite
found in 1837, in Coahuila, Mexico. The biggest mass (819
kg) is at Harvard, but masses of more
of 100 kg can be found in museums of
Paris, London, Vienna and Washington (USA).

The Mount Joy meteorite was found in State of Pennsylvania, USA, in1887, by Jacob Snyder, who made excavations in his land, near Gettysburg. Initially, its discoverers thought it was an iron mine, and only in 1891 it was considered a meteorite. 

The Hex River Mountains Meteorite was found in 1882 in West AfricaSouth, and have an original mass of 60 kg. Your fall on the Earth's surface was no to bserved, and can be seen fragments of this meteorite in the collections of the Smithsonian Institute and in London.

The Mistec meteorite, a mass ofapproximately 11 kg of iron, was found, in 1804, in Oaxaca, Mexico. later it was heated to approximately 1000°C, sectioned, and distributed to various museums and sellers in Austria, Hungary and Germany.

The Rodeo meteorite was found in 1852 in Durango, Mexico. A mass that was recovered weighed 44 kg. It was also called El Rodeo. Fragments can be seen in collections of Smithsonian Institute and the London Natural History Museum.

The Pultusk meteorite fell on 1868, near the city of Pultusk, Poland. Thousands of people witnessed the great ball of fire, followed by detonation, and a rain of small fragments (approximately 200 thousand), in an area of ​ 127 square km.

The Waconda meteorite, found in 1873, in a village in Kansas, USA, broke into several pieces (the biggest with 26.3 kg). A total mass of 50 kg was recovered. 

The Oakley meteorite is a meteorite rock, found in 1895, in the USA, and its fall wasn't witnessed. Fragments of this meteorite can bee seen in the collections of the Smithsonian Institute and the London Natural History Museum.

The fall of the Misshof meteorite was witnessed in Latvia, in 1890, and the total mass recovered was 5.8 kg. A ball of fire was seen, which emitted loud sounds and a final explosion.

The Santa Luzia meteorite, whose weight is 1.9 tons, it is the third-largest object space is known in Brazil, identified in 1921 in the municipality of Santa Luzia de Goiás, current Luziânia (GO). 

The Santa Catarina meteorite was found in 1875, on the island of SãoFrancisco do Sul, in Santa Catarina. It had around 25 tons, but, unfortunately, at the time of its discovery, it was confused with nickel ore (Ni) and exported.

The fall of the Stannern meteorite was witnessed, and many fragments were soon collected by the naturalist Karl Schreibers. The rain of meteorites occurred in 1808. The meteorites fell on Stonařov and villages neighbors, in   Czech Republic.

The Uberaba meteorite, weighing 40 kilos, had its face-to-face drop, on the morning of 1903, and unroofed the headquarters of the farm next to the crater it dug, in the municipality of Uberaba, Minas Gerais.

The meteorite Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, had its downfall observed by some residents of the region in 1908. Four small samples have been retrieved, totaling about 63 grams.

The Bendegó meteorite was discovered in 1784, in the sertão of the state of Bahia, region of the current city of Monte Santo. a century later, at the request of Emperor D. Pedro II, the Bendegó was transported to the Museum Nacional, in Rio de Janeiro.

Gibeon is a meteorite that fell in prehistoric times in Namibia. In 1836, the English captain J.E. Alexander collected some meteorite samples nearby from the Fish River and sent them to London. There, John Herschel analyzed them and confirmed their extraterrestrial nature.

The name Cratheus, assigned in 1931, corresponds to a metallic mass found in 1909, which had been purchased in 1914 by the Service Geological and Mineralogical of Brazil, located in Rio de Janeiro. It has came from Crateús, Ceará.

The Morristown meteorite was discovered in 1887, in a mountain range six miles away from the town of Morristown, Hamblen County, in Tennessee. 

The Eagle Station meteorite is classified as a pallasito and was found in 1880 near Eagle Station, Carroll County, Kentucky (United States). Your first description was made by George F. Kunz in 1887. Its original mass recovered was 36 kg.

The Mincy meteorite was found in 1857 in North American territory, in the state of Missouri. A little crumbly, the dough is a mixture of silicate minerals, Coarse granulation, accompanied by metallic grains and nodules.

The name Llano del Inca is one of twenty names for the Vaca Muerta meteorite. It had a mass original of 3.83 tons and was found in Chile in 1842.