Had the meteor actually crashed into the Earth — the resulting destruction would have been ... over the Curuca River in Brazil and an iron meteorite fell on the Sikhote Alin Mountains in 1947.

As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in collections around the world are iron-rich – these are rare and rather special beasts. They are thought to ...

Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites ... were so strong that the evidence of destruction was still intact when the first scientific ...