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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.
Here are some of the biggest space rocks ever to crash into us and survive. Willamette is the largest meteorite ever found in the US, at 7.8 square metres (84 square feet) long and with a weight of 15.5 tonnes (34,000 pounds).
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.
Here are the 25 biggest meteorites ever found on Earth: 1. The Hoba Meteorite: 132,277.36 Pounds. The Hoba meteorite, discovered in 1920 near Grootfontein, Namibia, is renowned as the largest meteorite on Earth. This colossal space rock, weighing about 60 tons, is composed mainly of iron and nickel.
The Hoba Meteorite of Namibia weighs 66 tons and is the largest meteorite ever found.
The Hoba Meteorite, located near Grootfontein in Namibia, is the largest known meteorite on Earth, both by mass and volume. Discovered in 1920 by a farmer while plowing his field, the Hoba Meteorite is a rare example of an ataxite, a type of iron meteorite with high nickel content.
Willamette is the largest meteorite ever found in the US, at 7.8 square metres long and with a weight of 15.5 tonnes.
Earth’s greatest hits: Six of the biggest meteorites in history. From the mysterious Tunguska event to the fossilised Morokweng space rock, when whopper meteorites come along they make a big...
Hoba meteorite, the largest intact meteorite, weighing about 60 tons, that has been found on Earth. It was discovered in 1920 on a farm called Hoba West, located 19 km (12 miles) west of Grootfontein in northern Namibia.
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.