Iron Meteorites
Dense nickel-iron meteorites from the cores of shattered asteroids.
- Campo del Cielofind
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.
ClassIAB ironCountryArgentina - Canyon Diablofind
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.
ClassIAB ironCountryUnited States - Hobafind
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.
ClassIVB ironCountryNamibiaDate1920Mass~ 60 t (the largest single meteorite known) - Sikhote-Alinfall
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.
ClassIIAB ironCountryRussiaDate1947-02-12 - Willamettefind
The largest meteorite ever found in the United States, an ~15-tonne iron sacred to the Clackamas people of the Willamette Valley.
ClassIIIAB ironCountryUnited StatesMass~ 15 t (largest found in the US)