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Close-up of the meteorite. The Willamette Meteorite weighs about 34,200 pounds (15,500 kg). It is classified as a type III iron meteorite, being composed of over 91% iron and 7.62% nickel, with traces of cobalt and phosphorus. The approximate dimensions of the meteorite are 10 feet (3 m) tall by 6.5 feet (2 m) wide by 4.25 feet (1.3 m) deep.
A meteorite is a rock that originated ... while others are alleged to have been cold enough to condense water and form a frost. ... Willamette – The largest ...
This is a list of largest meteorites on Earth. Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces. The table lists the largest meteorites found on the Earth's surface.
The Karin family, formed 5.8 million years ago, and the Koronis family, formed 7.6 million years ago, account for a class of meteorites called H chondrites that represent 33% of known Earth ...
The evidence of the impact included chemical signatures of the meteorite, small spherical structures formed from rock melted by the impact, and chunks of seabed mixed with other debris churned up ...
While meteorites in the same family as NWA 7635 were all dated about 500 million years old — meaning they were formed from cooling magma on the surface of Mars circa half a billion years ago ...
Willamette meteorite – the largest meteorite discovered in North America, found in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Winonaite – a type of primitive achondrite meteorite. Weston meteorite – a meteorite which fell to earth above the town of Weston, Connecticut on December 14, 1807.
Willamette Meteorite, a meteorite that was discovered in Oregon; Willamette Pass Resort, a ski area in the Cascade Range of Oregon; Willamette Stone, survey marker in Oregon; Willamette Cattle Company, a company formed in Oregon in 1837 to buy cattle in California; Willamette University, a private institution of higher learning located in Salem