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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.
It is the largest known intact meteorite (as a single piece) [2] and about twice as massive as the largest fragment of either the Cape York meteorite's 31-tonne Ahnighito kept in the American Museum of Natural History or the Campo del Cielo's 31-tonne Gancedo in Argentina.
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 giant meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and may have sparked life, scientists reveal. A giant, ancient meteor four times the size of ...
Hoba – The largest known intact meteorite. Kaidun – An unusual carbonaceous chondrite. Mbosi meteorite – A 16-metric-ton ungrouped iron meteorite in Tanzania. Murchison – A carbonaceous chondrite found to contain nucleobases – the building block of life. NÅgata – The oldest meteorite whose fall can be dated precisely (to 19 May 861 ...
They have been known to contain water – one of the key ingredients to life. Professor Russell said that apart from Ivuna, only four other known CI-type meteorites exist on Earth: Orgueil and ...
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 meteor and meteorite are named after Chelyabinsk Oblast, over which the meteor exploded.An initial proposal was to name the meteorite after Lake Chebarkul, where one of its major fragments impacted and made a 6-metre-wide (20 ft) hole in the frozen lake surface.