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Canyon Diablo is the name given to iron meteorite fragments associated with Meteor Crater, also called Barringer Crater, in Arizona. The impact occurred roughly 50,000 years ago and dispersed fragments of an IAB complex iron meteorite around the crater, many containing iron-nickel metal, sulfides, a...
Hoba is an iron meteorite found on a farm near Grootfontein, Namibia, in 1920. With an estimated mass of about 60 tonnes, it is the largest known intact meteorite and the largest naturally occurring mass of iron found near Earth's surface. Its great weight has prevented relocation, so it remains at...
Campo del Cielo is a large iron-meteorite strewn field in northern Argentina, formed when fragments of a meteoroid struck the region thousands of years ago. Indigenous communities knew of its iron masses before Spanish investigators documented them in the sixteenth century. Numerous fragments have s...
Morasko is an iron meteorite associated with a field of impact craters near Poznań, Poland. Meteorite fragments have been recovered from the area, and the site is protected within the Morasko Meteorite Nature Reserve, which preserves several roughly circular depressions interpreted as impact feature...
Toluca is an IAB-group iron meteorite found in the Toluca Valley of central Mexico and known locally for centuries. Numerous masses and fragments have been recovered, allowing material from the meteorite to become widely represented in museums, teaching collections, and private collections. Its iron...
The Nantan meteorite is an iron meteorite associated with a witnessed fall in Nantan County, Guangxi, China, in 1516, during the Ming dynasty. More than nine tonnes of material have reportedly been recovered from its strewn field, although many pieces were collected centuries after the event. It is...
Cranbourne is an IAB iron meteorite discovered near Cranbourne in Victoria, Australia, in the nineteenth century. Multiple masses have been recovered, collectively weighing several tonnes, and examples are held by major natural history collections. Its substantial recovered masses and association wi...
Magura is an iron meteorite classified as a coarse octahedrite, found in the Orava region of what is now Slovakia. Known to local communities for several centuries before its formal scientific study, it is recognized as one of the largest iron meteorites discovered in Central Europe. The meteorite e...
