Meteorites are incredibly rare rocks that often look like chunks of alien planets because that’s essentially what they are.
The Earth is littered with meteorites that look like frozen fire or futuristic iron. Some are the size of cars, some of them look like gold, and some are even older than the Earth itself.
Check out some rocks that crash-landed here to expand our knowledge of the universe.
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Found in Belarus in 1810.
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Weighing approximately 60 tons, the Hoba meteorite of Namibia is the largest known intact meteorite, discovered in 1920 near Grootfontein.
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Discovered in 1902, this massive iron meteorite weighs 15.5 tons and is the largest found in the United States.
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Discovered in Mexico in 1863, this iron meteorite weighs about 22 tons and is one of the largest in the world.
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Fell approximately 4,700 years ago, in Australia creating a field of impact craters and numerous iron fragments.
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(Arizona, USA) Associated with Meteor Crater, this iron meteorite impacted approximately 50,000 years ago and was discovered in Arizona.
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Found in Argentina in 1951.
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An iron meteorite discovered in Sweden in 1906.
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Discovered in the 19th century in Namibia.
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Fell in Russia in 1947.
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Discovered in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
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A group of iron meteorites fell 4,000–5,000 years ago in Argentina, with the largest fragment weighing over 30 tons.
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Discovered in 2000 in China, this pallasite meteorite contains stunning olivine crystals embedded in a nickel-iron matrix.
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EC 002 is an andesite rock that is 4.54 billion years old.
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A carbonaceous chondrite that crashed in Costa Rica in 2019.
