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Cape York is a group of chemically related IIIAB iron meteorite masses found in northwestern Greenland and derived from a prehistoric fall. Greenlandic Inuit communities worked meteoritic iron from masses known as the Woman, the Dog, and the Tent into tools and weapons before sustained access to Eur...
The Willamette Meteorite is an iron meteorite found in Oregon and classified as a type IIIAB iron. Weighing about 15.5 metric tonnes, it is the largest meteorite discovered in the United States and is displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Its deeply pitted surface was shap...
Wabar is an iron meteorite and associated impact site in the Rub' al Khali desert of Saudi Arabia. The event produced several craters and scattered iron fragments, impact glass, and other material formed under extreme heat and pressure. Explorer Harry St John Philby reached and described the site in...
Agpalilik is a large iron meteorite belonging to the Cape York meteorite group, whose fragments were found around Cape York in northwestern Greenland. Vagn F. Buchwald discovered the approximately 20-tonne mass near Savissivik in 1963, and it was later transported to Copenhagen for study and display...
Chupaderos is an iron meteorite from Chihuahua, Mexico, classified within the IIIAB chemical group. It is represented by two exceptionally large principal masses whose combined weight is approximately 24 tonnes, together with additional material associated with the find. Its iron-nickel composition...
Morito is a large iron meteorite found near the community of Morito in Chihuahua, Mexico. Classified within the IIIAB chemical group, it consists chiefly of iron-nickel metal and represents material produced inside a differentiated asteroid. The mass was known locally long before modern scientific s...
