I have seen this in the news a few times today. Amazing find but I'm
confused.
This new find is 34 tons.
El Chaco weighs in at 37 tons and Hoba has them beat at 66.
I missing a metric conversion in reference to El Chaco?
Referencing the book
The Campo Del Cielo Meteorites, Vol. II, Chaco
Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolas Goldberg
2012
Page 45
Rob Wesel
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From: "Sterling K. Webb via Meteorite-list"
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Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 9:52 PM
To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] The World's Second Largest Meteorite
List,
A 34-ton iron has been found
in the Campo del Cielo region
of Argentina:
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=332776
The meteorite was found on
Sept. 10 in the town of Gancedo,
1,085 km north of Buenos Aires,
Mario Vesconi, president of the
Astronomy Association of Chaco,
told the daily newspaper Clarin."
"While we hoped for weights above
what had been registered, we did
not expect it to exceed 30 [metric]
tons," Vesconi noted, adding that
"the size and weight [about 68,000
pounds] surprised us."
"The meteorite will be weighed
again to ensure an accurate
measurement. The largest
meteorite ever found is Hoba,
weighing 66 tons, in Namibia."
See also:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/sep/12/30-ton-meteor-discovered-in-arg
entina-at-ancient-m/
Sterling K. Webb
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