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Hunt continues for meteorite fragments scattered across northern Argentina 2 minutes read
By Julieta Barrera
Buenos Aires, Apr 6 (efe-epa).- Fragments of meteorites that made impact with Earth’s surface around 4,000 years ago still remain to be discovered in “Campo del Cielo” (Field of Heaven), a vast area of northern Argentina.
“It’s one of the world’s largest meteorite dispersion areas and the only one from which such a quantity of mass was recovered,” Mario Vesconi, president of the Chaco Astronomy Association (ACHA), researcher, geophysics expert and co-discoverer of six of the site’s eight multi-ton meteorites, told Efe.
The 400 tons of siderites (meteorites that largely consist of an iron-nickel alloy known as meteoric iron) that struck the ground at a speed of 14,000 kilometers (8,700 miles) per hour – half of the original 800-ton asteroid’s total mass was lost by ablation – were dispersed over a 240,000-hectare (926-square-mile) area straddling th