Xinjiang meteorite... Chinese researchers measure a huge iron meteorite found in a remote mountainous region in July 2011. The oblong metallic object has an estimated mass of 25 tons or more.

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image showing Xinjiang meteorite... Chinese researchers measure a huge iron meteorite found in a remote mountainous region in July 2011. The oblong metallic object has an estimated mass of 25 tons or more.

HolySmokeyPants on July 23rd, 2017 at 12:21 UTC »

Wonder how big it was before it hit the atmosphere!

InfinityCircuit on July 23rd, 2017 at 12:53 UTC »

I wonder how big the crater was. Something that massive hitting the earth would cause a lot of damage.

mcotter12 on July 23rd, 2017 at 14:51 UTC »

That must have been some super remote area for that to not be scooped up for blacksmithing in the last two thousand years.