The world’s largest meteor has ever fallen on Earth. The occurrence of meteors that fall to Earth is arguably quite rare.
There are only a few cases of meteors falling. It’s because of the rock outer space that enters the earth will burn in the atmosphere.
That’s why not many meteors penetrate the atmosphere. However, few managed to escape layers of the earth’s atmosphere has a fairly large size.
Here are the 6 biggest meteors in the world
Not only on Earth, rocks also exist in outer space. The difference is, the rocks in outer space move between other celestial bodies.
The space rock is called a meteor. Actually the size of this object is quite small when compared to an asteroid.
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Even so, there are some that are larger, like some that managed to enter and fall to Earth below.
Willamette
In the United States, there is a very large rock that turns out to be a meteor. Willamette is the largest meteor ever found in the world.
Ellis Hughes was the one who discovered this space rock in 1902.
After finding it, he needed at least 3 months to move the Willamette meteor to his estate.
The length of this stone is 7.8 square meters and it weighs 15.5 tons. After the scientists investigated, the Willamette meteorite was composed of iron and nickel. The Willamette Meteor is currently in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History.
Mbozi
The next largest meteor in the world comes from Tanzania. Mbozi was first identified in 1930.
Measuring 3 meters long and weighing 25 tons, Mbozi is almost twice as large as the Willamette meteor.
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The people of Tanzania make this meteor the sacred stone of their faith. There are no large craters or arches due to the fall of this meteor.
In fact, when it was first discovered Mbozi was buried underground. Experts argue that Mbozi’s possible fall was by rolling over.
Meteorit Cape York
Researchers estimate this meteor hit Earth 100 thousand years ago. Besides The Cape York Meteorite, this meteor is also known as Agpalilik. Cape York researchers found in 1933 in Greenland a weight of 20 tons.
Bacubirito
Mexico also has the largest meteor in the world. The estimated weight of the Bacubirito is the same as Cape York in Greenland.
This meteor weighs 20 tons with a length of 4.25 meters, a width of 2 meters and a height of 1.75 meters. Research on this meteor thanks to funding from Gilbert Ellis Bailey in 1863.
Thanks to researchers and the help of local residents, they finally found the Bacubirito meteor. Currently the longest meteor is at the Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa.
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Chaco
The weight and size of the El Chaco meteor is almost twice that of Bacubirito. So big, the fall of El Chaco also produces a large crater.
In fact, El Chaco is one of the fragments of the Campo del Cielo meteor and the second largest.
The crater, which is the largest meteor in the world, has an area of 60 sq km. The crater has the same name, namely El Chaco in Argentina.
El Chaco weighs 37 tons. In 1969, this meteor was buried 5 meters underground. Researchers managed to identify it using a metal detector.
Before this meteor was detected, the crater that existed was first well-known among the surrounding community. Unfortunately, no one has guessed the process of the formation of the crater.
Hoba
This last meteor became the largest meteor ever found. The weight of the largest meteor in the world even reaches 60 tons, the heaviest of all.
In addition to the largest meteor, Hoba is also the largest natural piece of iron on the Earth’s surface with an area of 6.5 square meters. The estimated fall of this meteor is 80,000 years ago in Namibia.
Hoba never moves due to its enormous size. No tool has yet been able to move it, even now.
One theory is that the shape of the Hoba meteor caused it to jump along the Earth’s surface rather than crashing into and burying itself.
Of course, when all the biggest meteors in the world fall, it has a bad impact on the surrounding environment. That’s why most of the craters around them were buried long ago after hundreds of thousands of years. (R10 / HR-Online / Editor-Ndu)
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