Iron Meteorites

An ancient field of large iron meteorites in Argentina, known to indigenous peoples for millennia, whose fragments include some of the heaviest single meteorite masses ever recovered.

The iron meteorite responsible for Barringer Crater (Meteor Crater) in Arizona; fragments are scattered around the rim of the crater it formed some 50,000 years ago.

The largest known intact meteorite and the largest naturally-occurring piece of iron near the Earth's surface, an ~60-tonne slab still lying where it was found in Namibia.

One of the largest observed iron meteorite falls, which broke apart over the Sikhote-Alin mountains in 1947 and scattered thousands of fragments, many with dramatic regmaglypt thumbprint textures, across a strewn field.

The largest meteorite ever found in the United States, an ~15-tonne iron sacred to the Clackamas people of the Willamette Valley.