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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
But dinosaurs were still a long time away from roaming Earth when S2 crashed down about 3.26 billion years ago. The meteorite was estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the extinction ...
The Muonionalusta meteorite (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈmuo̯nionˌɑlustɑ], Swedish pronunciation: [mʉˈǒːnɪɔnalːɵsta]) [1] is a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million years BCE.
But that was far from the largest meteorite to strike our planet. One up to 200 times bigger landed 3.26 billion years ago, triggering worldwide destruction at an even greater scale.
The Aletai meteorite, previously also known as the Armanty meteorite or Xinjiang meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a coarse octahedrite in chemical group IIIE-an. [b] In addition to many small fragments, at least five main fragments with a total mass over 74 tonnes have been recovered, the largest weighing about 28 tonnes.