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The Old Woman Meteorite is the largest meteorite to have been found in California and the second largest in the United States. It was discovered in the Old Woman Mountains in southern California in late March 1976. [1] It is 38 inches (970 mm) long, 34 inches (860 mm) high, and 30 inches (760 mm) wide.
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.
The mountains were the discovery site of the Old Woman Meteorite, the largest meteorite ever found in the state. The meteorite is now on display at the Desert Information Center in Barstow, California.
The Allende meteorite is the largest carbonaceous chondrite ever found on Earth. The fireball was witnessed at 01:05 on February 8, 1969, falling over the Mexican state of Chihuahua . [ 1 ] After it broke up in the atmosphere , an extensive search for pieces was conducted and over 2 tonnes (2.2 tons) were recovered.
As of May 2014, 79 fragments had been publicly documented with a find location. The largest (SM53) weighs 205 grams (7.2 oz), [4] [9] and the second largest (SM50) weighs 42 grams (1.5 oz). [9] The meteorite was found to contain some of the oldest material in the Solar System.
Willamette – The largest meteorite ever found in the United States. 2007 Carancas impact event – On 15 September 2007, a stony meteorite that may have weighed as much as 4000 kilograms created a crater 13 meters in diameter near the village of Carancas, Peru. [104]
At least 25 people have been killed and more than 40,000 acres burned as the wildfires race through southern California ... Below is a timeline of key events from ... the second-largest in the ...
The Novato meteorite is an ordinary chondrite which entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke up over Northern California at 19:44 Pacific Time on 17 October 2012. The falling bolide created a bright fireball and sonic booms and fragmented into smaller pieces as the intense friction of passing through the atmosphere heated it and absorbed its kinetic energy. [2]