Haxtun Meteorite, Ordinary chondrite, type H/L4. Photomicrograph of a thin-section (compare to the Allende photomicrograph above); field of view is ~4 mm. The Haxtun meteorite was found in August, 1975 in Phillips Co., Colorado, USA. It is a strongly shocked ordinary chondrite as evidenced by flattened chondrules, shock-melt veins and "strain shadows," a feature determined by optical properties that indicates deformation in the atomic crystal lattices of major minerals.