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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 Chelyabinsk meteor is thought to be the biggest natural space object to enter Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event, [23] [24] [25] and the only one confirmed to have resulted in many injuries, [26] [Note 1] although a small number of panic-related injuries occurred during the Great Madrid Meteor Event of 10 February 1896. [27]
The impactor belonged to the Apollo group of near-Earth asteroids. [10] [11] The asteroid had an approximate size of 18 m (59 ft) and a mass of about 9,100 t (10,000 short tons) before it entered the denser parts of Earth's atmosphere and started to ablate. [12] At an altitude of about 23.3 km (14.5 miles) the body exploded in a meteor air ...
The giant S2 meteorite hit Earth 3 billion years ago. ... unleashed a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans — but an ancient meteor may also have nurtured life on ...
2024 UQ, designated formerly as A11dc6D, was a one-meter meteoroid that struck the Earth's atmosphere and burned up harmlessly on 22 October 2024 above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. 2024 UQ is the tenth impact event that was successfully predicted, which was discovered by the ATLAS survey.
In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance of colliding into Earth in five years, when it is expected to make a ...
The Great Daylight Fireball (also known as the Grand Teton Meteor) was an Earth-grazing fireball that passed within 57 kilometres (35 mi; 187,000 ft) of Earth's surface at 20:29 UTC on August 10, 1972.
A huge asteroid will fly by Earth in April 2029. It won't be close enough to hit us, but it will be close enough to study, so scientists are getting ready. An asteroid will just miss us in 2029.