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The other day, a team of Argentinean experts made a startling opening. In the province of Chaco, where they first found a group of fallen Campo del Cielo meteorites, researchers unearthed a new body space origin. The mass of this meteorite is about thirty tons, making it one of the largest, if not the largest whole piece of the cosmic body that fell on our the planet.
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In particular, the find was immediately called the largest meteorite. Argentinean media staff. Scientists so far refuse to give any ratings and comments. Perhaps it just a huge boulder that has never been in space. Still to be find out if a huge rounded stone is really a meteorite. Given that in the province of Chaco before it was found several meteorites with a total weight of forty-four tons, this is more than likely.
However, even if it turns out to be so, the largest meteorite to him still not become because this title will continue to be belong to a meteorite called Goba, found in 1920 in the African state of Namibia. The mass of the gob, consisting of iron, is sixty six tons! Meteorite is a national a monument and tourist attraction that is reliably guard against vandals and individuals wishing to break a piece iron for memory.
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And second place to the new Argentine find is probably not will be won because El Chaco, found here in the province of Chaco. It weighs thirty-seven tons. Local researchers report that they didn’t extract from the land in this region thirty-five percent of all fragments there. Quite it’s possible that a real champion may be hiding here will wipe its nose to all other meteorites on Earth.
