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An iron mass can fill a museum hall. A polished slice can reveal crystals or tiny round grains you would miss on the outside. These photographs show named meteorites at their find sites, on museum display, and in research collections. Look for the pits, crusts, and cut surfaces that make each specimen distinctive.

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Hoba
Hoba: The stepped viewing area surrounds the biggest single meteorite ever found. The flat-topped iron mass weighs about 60…
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Fukang
Fukang: The greenish crystals in this slice are olivine set in iron-nickel metal. The main mass of this pallasite weighed…
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Willamette (Tomanowos)
Willamette (Tomanowos): Deep hollows mark the surface of this 15.5-ton iron meteorite from Oregon. The American Museum of…
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Allende
Allende: Pale inclusions stand out in this cut face at Arizona State University. Allende is a carbonaceous chondrite that…
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Ahnighito (Cape York)
Ahnighito (Cape York): The iron mass on the platform weighs 34 U.S. tons. Ahnighito is the largest fragment of the Cape…
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El Chaco (Campo del Cielo)
El Chaco (Campo del Cielo): The iron mass sits on a low platform in Argentina’s Campo del Cielo reserve. El Chaco was…
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Sikhote-Alin
Sikhote-Alin: This iron fragment has a rounded leading edge and fine lines on the surface. It came from the meteorite…
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Ensisheim
Ensisheim: This fragment from a witnessed fall in Alsace now sits in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. The…
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Murchison
Murchison: The rough dark stone on the red stand is a piece of the carbonaceous chondrite that fell near Murchison…
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Bendegó
Bendegó: The iron-nickel mass rests on stone supports in this photograph from Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum. Found in…
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Bacubirito
Bacubirito: The long iron mass stretches across its blue supports in Culiacán, Mexico. It was found near Bacubirito in…
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Northwest Africa 7034 (Black Beauty)
Northwest Africa 7034 (Black Beauty): The cut face shows pale fragments within a dark matrix. Black Beauty is a breccia, a…
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Nakhla
Nakhla: The dark outer coating and lighter broken face are visible on this piece of Martian rock at London’s Natural…
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Mundrabilla
Mundrabilla: The rusty, pitted mass is the largest meteorite found in Australia. This 12.4-metric-ton piece belongs to the…
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Allan Hills 84001
Allan Hills 84001: The dark rind surrounds a lighter face on this meteorite from Mars, found in Antarctica in 1984. Its…
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Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk: Recovered from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul, this is the largest fragment of the stony meteorite that fell…
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Gibeon
Gibeon: The iron fragments on the pedestals came from a meteorite shower in southern Namibia. In Windhoek, pieces of Gibeon…
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Peekskill
Peekskill: The cut surface of this stony meteorite is on display at the American Museum of Natural History. The rock made…
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Orgueil
Orgueil: The dark, cracked specimen was exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. It came from a…
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Gancedo (Campo del Cielo)
Gancedo (Campo del Cielo): Cables lift the iron mass out of the ground during its recovery in 2016. Gancedo weighs about 30…
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Canyon Diablo (Holsinger Meteorite)
Canyon Diablo (Holsinger Meteorite): This pitted iron mass stands on a pedestal at Arizona’s Meteor Crater visitor center…

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