{"product_id":"new-orleans-h5-ordinary-chondrite-fragment-3-6g-usa","title":"New Orleans - H5 Ordinary Chondrite - Fragment - 3.6g - USA","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"26\" data-end=\"476\"\u003eThis 3.6g fragment of New Orleans comes from a meteorite that crashed through the roof of a family home in Louisiana on the afternoon of 23rd September 2003. One face carries dark fusion crust, while the broken surfaces show the lighter interior of the stone in warm grey, brown and orange tones. It is presented in a display frame with a New Orleans skyline card and a label reading NOR-01, H5, 3.6g.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"478\" data-end=\"968\"\u003eNew Orleans is an H5 Ordinary Chondrite. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin, a fireball was observed that afternoon before the stone came down through a two-storey house while the owners were out, and neighbours reported hearing a tremendous noise. The main mass broke apart and came to rest in the crawl space beneath the house, with powdery debris and fragments left along its path through the building. The total known weight is about 19.36kg, almost all of it recovered from the house itself, with roughly 100g found in the surrounding neighbourhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"970\" data-end=\"1408\"\u003eAs an H5, New Orleans belongs to the high-iron group of Ordinary Chondrites, which contain abundant metal grains. Petrologic type 5 indicates that the rock was heated within its parent asteroid, so its chondrules are less sharply defined than in less altered meteorites. The H chondrites are widely thought to share a single parent body, and some researchers have linked them to the asteroid 6 Hebe, although that connection remains a hypothesis rather than an established fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"970\" data-end=\"1408\"\u003eFor collectors, New Orleans belongs to a small and well documented group of hammer stones, meteorites that struck buildings or other man-made objects. It is also a witnessed fall from a major US city, with a clear recovery story and limited material available, since most of the total known weight came from a single mass recovered inside one house. This fragment carries that history with it, from the fireball over Louisiana to the crawl space where the stone finally came to rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"OuterSpacer Meteorites","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57869746897222,"sku":"NOR-01\/01","price":3029.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/0518\/8678\/files\/20251211_141018-2.jpg?v=1794477745","url":"https:\/\/outerspacer.com\/products\/new-orleans-h5-ordinary-chondrite-fragment-3-6g-usa","provider":"OuterSpacer Meteorites","version":"1.0","type":"link"}