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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A Russian Stone Brahin Palasite Meteorite
Found in Belarus in 1810.
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Hoba Meteorite
Weighing approximately 60 tons, the Hoba meteorite of Namibia is the largest known intact meteorite, discovered in 1920 near Grootfontein.
3
Willamette Meteorite
Discovered in 1902, this massive iron meteorite weighs 15.5 tons and is the largest found in the United States.
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Bacubirito Meteorite
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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Henbury Meteorites
Fell approximately 4,700 years ago, in Australia creating a field of impact craters and numerous iron fragments.
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Canyon Diablo Meteorite
(Arizona, USA) Associated with Meteor Crater, this iron meteorite impacted approximately 50,000 years ago and was discovered in Arizona.
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Esquel Meteorite
Found in Argentina in 1951.
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Muonionalusta Meteorite (Sweden) is renowned for its intricate crystalline patterns.
An iron meteorite discovered in Sweden in 1906.
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Gibeon Meteorite
Discovered in the 19th century in Namibia.
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Sikhote-Alin Meteorite
Fell in Russia in 1947.
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Imilac Meteorite
Discovered in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
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Campo del Cielo Iron
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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Fukang Meteorite
Discovered in 2000 in China, this pallasite meteorite contains stunning olivine crystals embedded in a nickel-iron matrix.
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A meteorite older than Earth
EC 002 is an andesite rock that is 4.54 billion years old.
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Aguas Zarcas
A carbonaceous chondrite that crashed in Costa Rica in 2019.
