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The Bonhams sale notice states: "The present specimen was obtained in 1968 by the father of the present owner when he visited the main mass of Hoba together with some friends. Using a hand saw, they cut a large block of the meteorite from the main mass 'as a souvenir', an activity which took them between three and four hours."
The Haviland Crater, also called the Brenham Crater, is a meteorite crater in Kiowa County, Kansas. [1] [2] The oval crater is 50 feet (15 m) in diameter, making it one of the smallest impact craters in the world. Its age is estimated to be less than 1000 years. [3] It has been explored with ground-penetrating radar. [4]
It was found, and excavated using hand tools, on the Ellis Peck farm, east of Greensburg, Kansas. A large collection of Brenham meteorites, along with numerous fragments weighing a total of 8,500 pounds, were once housed at the now-closed Kansas Meteorite Museum and Nature Center in Haviland, Kansas. [4] [5]
The exact worth of a meteorite varies depending on the specific type of meteorite in question. An 82-pound iron meteorite originating from an asteroid recently sold for $44,100 — about $540 per ...
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 Hoba meteorite is the largest meteorite specimen ever found. As of December 2012, 14 specimens of IVB meteorites are known. [11] A notable specimen is the Hoba meteorite, the largest known intact meteorite. There has never been an observed fall of an IVB meteorite. [11]
After a brilliant fireball and a loud noise, a very large shower of meteorites fell over a large area of Norton County and Furnas County on February 18, 1948. On April 28, a research team from the University of New Mexico set out to identify and recover pieces of the meteorite. Everything that they recovered was either donated to or sold to the ...
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