Meteorite

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piece of solid matter from outer space that has impacted the Earth  bildo   ikono
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See also: Iron meteorites

• Campo del Cielo meteorite, Chaco Province, Argentina (1576) total known weight: more than 100 tons
  • Main fragments: el Meson de Fierro or Otumpa (missing), Runa Pocito or Otumpa, el Toba, el Hacha, el Mocovi, el Tonocote, el Abipon, el Mataco, el Taco, la Perdida, Las Viboras, el Chaco, Tañigó II (missing), la Sopresa, el Wichí or Meteorito Santiagueño

• Hoba meteorite, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia (1920) total known weight: 60 tons
• Cape York meteorite, Qaasuitsup, Greenland (1894) total known weight: 58.2 tons
  • Main fragments: Ahnighito (aka the Tent), Woman, Dog, Savik I, Thule, Savik II, Agpalilik (aka the Man), Tunorput
• Canyon Diablo meteorite, Arizona, USA (1891) total known weight: 30 tons
• Armanty meteorite, Xinjiang, China, fragment weight: 28.0 tons
  • Xinjiang meteorite, Xinjiang, China (July 2011) fragment weight: 25.0 tons, it might be from the same meteoroid
• Gibeon meteorite, Namaland, Namibia (1836) total known weight: 26 tons
• Sikhote-Alin meteorite, Primorskiy kray, Russia (1947) total known weight: 23.0 tons
• Bacubirito meteorite, Sinaloa, Mexico (1863) total known weight: 22 tons
• Chupaderos meteorite, Chihuahua, Mexico (1852) fragment weights: 14.11 and 6.77 tons
  • Main fragments: Chupaderos I, Chupaderos II
• Mundrabilla meteorite, Western Australia, Australia (1966) fragment weights: 12.4 and 6.1 tons
  • Main fragments: Mundrabilla I, Mundrabilla II
• Mbozi meteorite, Mbeya, Tanzania (1930) fragment weight: 16 tons
• Willamette meteorite, Oregon, USA (1902) total known weight: 14.15 tons
• Morito meteorite, Chihuahua, Mexico (1600) fragment weight: 10.1 tons
• Nantan meteorite, Guangxi, China (1958) fragment weight: 9.5 tons
• Cranbourne meteorite, Victoria, Australia (1854) total known weight: 8.6 tons
• Santa Catharina meteorite, Santa Catarina, Brazil (1875) total known weight: 7 tons
• Bendegó meteorite, Bahia, Brazil (1784) fragment weight: 5.36 tons
• Toluca meteorite, Mexico, Mexico (1776) total known weight: 3 tons
• Henbury meteorite, Northern Territory, Australia (1931) total known weight: 2 tons

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  1,530 kg fragment, Campo del Cielo meteorite fall
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  Hoba meteorite
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  Cape York meteorite, Agpalilik fragment
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  Gibeon meteorite
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  Sikhote Alin
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  Bacubirito meteorite
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  Chupaderos meteorite
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  Mundrabilla meteorite

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  Mbozi meteorite
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  Willamette meteorite in AMNH
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  Morito meteorite
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  Nantan meteorite (南丹铁陨石)
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  Bendegó meteorite
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  Toluca meteorite
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  Henbury iron meteorite
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  Tatton park meteorite
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  Eisen meteorite
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  5g Iron Meteorite from Campo del Cielo, Argentina

See also:

• Pallasite meteorites
• Mesosiderite meteorites

• Brenham meteorite, Kansas, USA (2005) total known weight: 4.3 tons
• Vaca Muerta meteorite, Antofagasta, Chile (1861) total known weight: 3.83 tons
• Huckitta meteorite, Northern Territory, Australia (1937) total known weight: 2.30 tons
• Fukang meteorite, Xinjiang, China (2000) total known weight: 1.00 ton
• Imilac meteorite, Antofagasta, Chile (1822) total known weight: 0.92 tons
• Bondoc meteorite, Southern Tagalog, Philippines (1956) total known weight: 0.89 tons
• Brahin meteorite, Gomel', Belarus (1810) total known weight: 0.82 tons
• Esquel meteorite, Chubut, Argentina (1951) total known weight: 0.75 tons
• Krasnojarsk meteorite, Krasnoyarskiy kray, Russia (1749) total known weight: 0.70 tons
• Jepara meteorite, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia (2008) total known weight: 0.50 tons
• Seymchan meteorite, Magadanskaya oblast', Russia (2007) total known weight: 0.32 tons
• Estherville meteorite, Iowa, USA (1879) total known weight: 0.32 tons
• Omolon meteorite, Magadanskaya oblast', Russia (1981) total known weight: 0.25 tons
• Youxi meteorite, Fujian, China (2006) total known weight: 0.22 tons
• Pallasovka meteorite, Volgogradskaya oblast', Russia (1990) total known weight: 0.20 tons

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  Esquel meteorite, pallasite slice
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  Brahin meteorite
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  Huckitta meteorite
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  Krasnojarsk meteorite
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  Seycham meteorite
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  Breham meteorite, world's largest oriented pallasite
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  Imilac meteorite

See also:

• Primitive achondrites
• Achondrites
• Chondrite meteorites

• Allende meteorite, Chihuahua, Mexico (8 February 1969) total known weight: 2 tons
• Northwest Africa 869 (NWA 869), Northwest Africa (2000) total known weight: 2 tons
• Jilin meteorite, Jilin, China (1976) fragment weight: 1,770 kg
• Norton County meteorite, Kansas, USA (1948) fragment weight: 1,070 kg
• Long Island meteorite, Kansas, USA (1891) total known weight: 560 kg
• Paragould meteorite, Arkansas, USA (1930) fragment weight: 370 kg
• Bjurböle meteorite, Finland (1899) total known weight: 330 kg

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  Allende meteorite, world's best-studied meteorite
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  Allende strewn field
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  Tenerife meteorite
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  Tenerife meteorite

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  NWA 869
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  Jilin meteorite
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  Paragould meteorite
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  Separated chondrules from the chondrite Bjurböle

• References:
  • The Meteoritical Society, The World's Largest Meteorite Fragments archive copy at the Wayback Machine, meteorite.fr, meteoris.de archive copy at the Wayback Machine, meteorites.tv
  • Stony-Iron Meteorites: Brahin, Fukang, Seymchan, Pallasovka, Huckitta, Brenham, Imilac, Krasnojarsk, Esquel, Mineo (2010) General Books LLC, ISBN: 9781157455264, pp. 30

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  A meteorite collection representing wittnessed falls from 1868 - 2008
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  Camel Donga (#?) eucrite meteorite
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  Carbonaceous chondrites
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  Chinga meteorite (1913, TKW: 209.4 kg)
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  Gao-Guenie meteorite (March 1960)
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  NWA 778 LL6 type stone meteorite (1999, TKW: 9.75 kg)
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  MET 00506 meteorite (2000, TKW: 301 g)
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  Morasko meteorite, octahedrit (1914, TKW: 290 kg)
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  Neuschwanstein meteorite (2002, TKW: 6.19 kg)
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  72g Tatahouine diogenite meteorite (1931, TKW: 12 kg)

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  Iron meteorite, slice
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  735g endcut taken from the main mass of the Patos de Minas (octahedrite) iron meteorite (1925, TKW: 200 kg)
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  Widmanstätten patterns

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  A textbook example of an oriented meteorite (Middlesbrough, cast; 1881, TKW: 1.6 kg)
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  77g oriented Millbillillie eucrite meteorite (1960, TKW: 330 kg)
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  Baszkówka meteorite, oriented meteorite (1994, TKW: 15.5 kg)
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  Krähenberg meteorite, oriented meteorite (1869, TKW: 16.5 kg)

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  Stone meteorite in find situation, Hammdah al Hamra 336, Libya (2004, TKW: 880g)
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  Meteorite Recovery in Antarctica
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  308g Bassikounou meteorite (2006, TKW: 26.56 kg)
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  Strewnfield / distribution ellipse of the Bassikounou meteorite fall
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  Hraschina meteorite (1751, TKW: 49 kg)
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  Hraschina meteorite, Drawings of the fall
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  Meteoritenablagerungen in Blaueisfeldern
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See also:

• Martian meteorites
• Lunar meteorites
• Asteroidal achondrites

Notes:

• Martian meteorites are martian rocks on Earth, but there are meteorites on Mars as well (e.g. Rovers on Mars)
• Lunar meteorites are lunar rocks on Earth, but there are meteorites on the Moon as well (e.g. Apollo program)

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  ALH 84001 martian meteorite
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  EETA 79001 martian meteorite
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  NWA 7034 martian meteorite
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  Paired with NWA 2986 martian meteorite
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  ALH 84001 martian meteorite: fossil bacteria?
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  Heat Shield Rock, Mars
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  ALH 81005 lunar meteorite
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  Hadley Rille meteorite, Moon

• Impact crater