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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. It weighed 30 tonnes and fell to Earth around 2000 BC. [2]
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.
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