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Peary sold this specimen for $40,000 (equivalent to $1.47 million in 2023 [20]) to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where all three of the first discovered Cape York fragments are still on display. 3.4-by-2.1-by-1.7-metre (11.2 ft × 6.9 ft × 5.6 ft) Ahnighito is the second heaviest meteorite known to date (after the Hoba ...
A way east across the bay is the island of discovery of the Cape York Meteorite fragments. In the Greenlandic language, the name of the settlement Savissivik on the island close to the cape means 'place of meteorite iron' (savik = iron/knife), [3] alluding to the numerous meteorites from 10,000 years ago that have been found in the area. [4]
The meteorite was of significant local economic importance: Although the Greenlanders had been obtaining the iron they needed from whalers, the Cape York meteorite was the only source of iron for tools. Peary sold it for $40,000 in 1897. [44]
In the Greenlandic language, the name Savissivik means "Place of Meteoric Iron" or "Knives", [2] alluding to the numerous meteorite fragments that have been found in the area dating to about 10,000 years ago. [3] The Cape York meteorite is estimated to have weighed 100 tonnes before it exploded. [3]
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.
Peary had promised that they would be able to return to Greenland. Soon after their arrival, the group became the objects of study, together with the Cape York meteorite which Peary had brought. Franz Boas and the museum staff, at most expecting a single person for interviews to be conducted during the winter, had not made plans for the care of ...
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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.