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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.
The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette [3] and originally known as Tomanowos by the Clackamas Chinook [4] [5] Native American tribe, is an iron-nickel meteorite found in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the largest meteorite found in the United States and the sixth largest in the world.
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.
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.
The museum has an extensive collection of specimens, including the largest intact Mars rock on Earth. Pitt said the museum is also looking to purchase any other specimens found by meteorite hunters.
It is accessed via the Tanami Road 150 km (93 mi) south of the town of Halls Creek.The crater is central to the Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater National Park. [3]The crater averages about 875 metres (2,871 ft) in diameter, 60 metres (200 ft) from rim to present crater floor. [3]
The Cape York meteorite, also known as the Innaanganeq meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a medium octahedrite in chemical group IIIAB. [5] In addition to many small fragments, at least eight large fragments with a total mass of 58 tonnes have been recovered, the largest weighing 31 tonnes (31 long tons; 34 ...