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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.
The Old Woman Meteorite is the largest meteorite to have been found in California and the second largest in the United States. It was discovered in the Old Woman Mountains in southern California in late March 1976. [1] It is 38 inches (970 mm) long, 34 inches (860 mm) high, and 30 inches (760 mm) wide.
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It is located south of Essex in San Bernardino County, California. This 163,120-acre (660 km 2 ) [ 1 ] wilderness was established in 1994, and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management . The 1975 discovery of the Old Woman Meteorite is located in the Old Woman Mountains and is the largest meteorite found in California and the second largest ...
The meteorite, S2, was first discovered in 2014. It hit the planet about 3.26 billion years ago and is estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the space rock that later killed the ...
[10] [11] [12] Two 10-micron diamond grains were found in meteorite fragments recovered before any rain fell as the rain would degrade the purity of the meteorites for scientific study. [13] In primitive meteorites like Sutter's Mill, some grains survived from what existed in the cloud of gas, dust and ice that formed the Solar System .
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 ...
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.