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The Gancedo Meteorite is the largest known fragment of the meteor shower that fell in Campo del Cielo, in Charata, Chaco Province, Argentina. [1]According to early reports, the meteorite weighs approximately 30,800 kilograms (34.0 short tons), making it the largest meteorite found in the Americas and the third-largest in the world.
The fragments contain an unusually high density of inclusions for an iron meteorite, which may have contributed to the disintegration of the original meteorite. The average composition of the Campo del Cielo meteorites is 3.6 ppm iridium , 87 ppm gallium , 407 ppm germanium , 0.25% phosphorus , 0.43% cobalt , and 6.67% nickel , with the ...
Gancedo is a village and municipality in Chaco Province in northern Argentina. [ 1 ] In September 2016, a huge meteorite – the second largest ever found – was exhumed near the town.
This is a list of largest meteorites on Earth. Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces. The table lists the largest meteorites found on the Earth's surface.
Español: El meteorito El Chaco o Chaco es el mayor fragmento conocido del meteorito Campo del Cielo que impactó en la región denominada Campo del Cielo, a 12 kilómetros de la localidad de Gancedo, en la actual provincia del Chaco, Argentina. Los cálculos de carbono 14 sítuan la caída entre los años 2080 y 1910 a. C. Su cráter fue ...
The Winchcombe meteorite, which crashed into a driveway in the Gloucestershire town last February, is also thought to hold clues about where the water in the Earth’s vast oceans came from.
Pages in category "Iron meteorites" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. ... Gancedo (meteorite) Gay Gulch meteorite; Gebel Kamil (meteorite)
locations consistently demonstrate that mercury concen-trations are inversely associated with distance to the environmental source (Ordonez et al., 2003; Fernandez et al., 2000; Hardaway et al., 2002; Navarro et al., 1993; Kalac et al., 1991; Moore and Sutherland, 1981). A 2000 report by the National Academy of Sciences’