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Comparison of approximate sizes of notable impactors with the Hoba meteorite, a Boeing 747 and a New Routemaster bus. The Hoba meteorite left no preserved crater and its discovery was a chance event. In 1920, [1] the owner of the land, Jacobus Hermanus Brits, encountered the object while ploughing one of his fields with an ox. While working the ...
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.
It is the largest meteorite found in the United States and the sixth largest in the world. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] There was no impact crater at the discovery site; researchers believe the meteorite landed in what is now Canada or Montana , and was transported as a glacial erratic to the Willamette Valley during the Missoula Floods at the end of the last ...
The Winchcombe meteorite is a rare and pristine carbonaceous chondrite, and it likely holds clues about early Earth's composition—and where our water came from.
A "meteorite fall", also called an "observed fall", is a meteorite collected after its arrival was observed by people or automated devices. Any other meteorite is called a "meteorite find". [43] [44] There are more than 1,100 documented falls listed in widely used databases, [45] [46] [47] most of which have specimens in modern collections.
A giant meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and may have sparked life, ... a water world with only a few continents sticking out of the sea.
After a 4.5-billion-year journey through space, a car-size rock fell to Earth on October 7, 2008 — and it contained a bunch of tiny diamonds.
The Muonionalusta meteorite, probably the oldest known meteorite (4.5653 ± 0.0001 billion years), [4] marks the first occurrence of stishovite in an iron meteorite. The mineral muonionalustaite, a hydrated nickel chloride, was first found as a weathering product from a meteorite sample.