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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.
Many meteorites are found by people who sell meteorites... valuable, rare types become known to science quickly, while those of low value may never be described. There have been many attempts to correct statistical analyses of meteorite finds for some of these effects, especially to estimate the frequency with which rare meteorite types fall.
A few meteorites were found in Antarctica between 1912 and 1964. In 1969, the 10th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition found nine meteorites on a blue ice field near the Yamato Mountains. With this discovery, came the realization that movement of ice sheets might act to concentrate meteorites in certain areas. [63]
Previous research found that less than 1% of the meteorites came from Mars and the moon. The researchers are still exploring the source of the remaining roughly 15% of known Earth meteorites.
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.
Most lunar meteorites are launched from the Moon by impacts making lunar craters of a few kilometers in diameter or less. [6] No source crater of lunar meteorites has been positively identified, although there is speculation that the highly anomalous lunar meteorite Sayh al Uhaymir 169 derives from the Lalande impact crater on the lunar nearside.
A Belgian-Dutch team of scientists says it has created the first “treasure map” showing where meteorites may be found On the hunt for meteorites, researchers look to a data-based 'treasure map ...
UK scientists believe they have identified the source of one of the rarest meteorites to ever fall on Earth. The Ivuna meteorite landed in Tanzania in December 1938 and was subsequently split into ...