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Although pallasites are a rare meteorite type, enough pallasite material is found in museums and meteorite collections and is available for research. This is due to several large finds, some of which yielded more than a metric ton. The following are the largest finds: Brenham, Kansas, United States.
Dr. John Evans, a medical doctor and government-appointed geologist working for the United States Department of the Interior, claimed to have found a 10-ton (10,000 kg) pallasite meteorite in coastal Oregon (then Oregon Territory) on a "bald mountain" above Port Orford in 1856.
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.
A unique 4-pound pallasite meteorite featuring crystals of olivine and peridot recently sold for $60,480. ... there are steps to take if you think you’ve found a meteorite and want to know for ...
Esquel is a meteorite found near Esquel, a Patagonian town in the northwest part of the province of Chubut in Argentina. It is a pallasite, a type of stony–iron meteorite that when cut and polished shows yellowish olivine (peridot) crystals. In 1951 a farmer uncovered a meteorite in an unknown location near Esquel while digging a hole for a ...
The Eagle Station group (abbreviated PES - Pallasite Eagle Station) is a set of pallasite meteorite specimen that do not fit into any of the other defined pallasite groups. In meteorite classification five meteorites have to be found, so they can be defined as their own group. [1] Currently only five Eagle Station type meteorites have been ...
Imilac is a pallasite meteorite found in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile in 1822. ... Numerous masses were found in a valley to the southwest of Imilac. The ...
The Haviland Crater, also called the Brenham Crater, is a meteorite crater in Kiowa County, Kansas. [1] [2] The oval crater is 50 feet (15 m) in diameter, making it one of the smallest impact craters in the world. Its age is estimated to be less than 1000 years. [3] It has been explored with ground-penetrating radar. [4]