The largest meteorite in the Americas, along with some 30 related craters, is located on farmland in Argentina, but the specimens are being illegally taken Argentina’s Chaco Province, a vast plain ...
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Where the sky fell to earth, the ancient meteorites that still shape Argentina’s Campo del Cielo
In the south east of Argentina’s Chaco province lies Campo del Cielo, a vast area marked by a meteorite shower that struck the region around 4,000 years ago. The impact scattered dozens of iron ...
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Uruguayan authorities at the port of Paysandú have seized a meteorite worth around US$ 1 million when it was being smuggled into the country from Argentina, it was reported earlier this week.
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