'Orconuma Meteorite’ now on public display at the National Museum of Natural History

National Museum of the Philippines Director General Jeremy Barns, CESO III looks at a part of the 'Orconuma Meteorite', a recent donation and the first ever meteorite in the National Geological and Paleontological Collections.

The meteorite is on public display at the Godofredo Alcasid Function Hall located on the ground floor of the National Museum of Natural History in Rizal Park, Manila on Friday, July 22, 2022. It is one of the six meteorites from the Philippines listed in the Bulletin Database of the Meteoritical Society. Classified as an H3-4 chondrite, this space rock is one of the first solid materials to form from the earliest days of our solar system, about 4.6 billion years ago. (MB Video by Ali Vicoy)

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