The asteroids from outer space rush to Earth all burn when flying into the atmosphere and forming a supernova. But there are some large-scale asteroids that cannot burn off and fall to the ground called meteors.
Most of the meteorites that have fallen on our planet have been going on for a long time. Until it was found by humans, it dates back thousands of years. Thankfully, most of them are small rocks except for giant meteorites that have caused great extinction on Earth 63 million years ago.
Here are the six largest meteors ever discovered by humans on this planet.
1. Willamette meteorite
In 1902, Willamette, discovered by Ellis Hughes but then he did not know this was a meteorite but thought it was a normal rock. Ellis Hughes broke it up for sale to the steel company. Thankfully, the incident was discovered and stopped when he sold nearly 1 stone.
Willamette has an area of 7.8 square meters, weighs 15.5 tons and is the largest meteorite ever discovered in America. Willamette's main ingredient is iron and nickel. This meteorite was displayed at the American Museum of Natural History from 1906 to the present.
2. Mbozi meteorite
Mbozi was discovered in Tanzania, this meteorite is 3m long, weighing 25 tons. The people of Tanzania call it kimondo and worship as a sacred stone.
When discovered, Mbozi sank half below the ground. Currently, people have dug around and fixed it with an artificial statue to preserve.
3. Cape York meteorite
The Cape York meteorite fell to Earth about 10,000 years ago and it was not until 1993 that it was discovered. This is the third largest meteor among the meteorites ever discovered, it weighs nearly 20 tons.
Currently, Cape York is on display at the Geographic Museum of Copenhagen University, Denmark.
4. Bacubirito meteorite
In 1863, Bacubirito was discovered by geologist Gilbert Ellis Bailey in Ranchito village, near Sinaloa de Leyva.
This meteorite is made of iron, 4.25m long, 1.75m high, 4.25m wide, weighs about 20 tons and this is the largest meteorite ever discovered in Mexico. Currently, it is on display at the Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa Science Center.
5. El Chaco meteorite
In 1969, El Chaco was discovered at a depth of 5 meters below the ground and became the second largest meteorite on Earth with a mass of 37 tons. Despite its enormous mass, twice as much as the Cape York meteorite, but this is just a crumb of Campo del Cielo, the asteroid group once crashed into Earth to form a group of craters on an area of 60 km2 in Argentina.
In 2016, another debris believed to have originated with El Chaco was also found underground.
6. Hoba meteorite
This is the largest meteorite ever discovered on the ground with a volume of 60 tons, weighing nearly twice as much as El Chaco.
According to the researchers, Hoba has fallen to the ground since 80,000 years ago and remains fixed there until now.
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