Iron Meteorites

Iron meteorites represent the largest group of all meteorite findings outside of the hot deserts of Africa and Asia and the ice of the Antarctica, as they can be recognized by layman by their metallic consistence and their heavy weight easily as meteorites. Moreover they weather slower than their stony relatives and are mostly much bigger, because they are compact and more stable and therefore rarely burst on their passage through the atmosphere as well as when they bounce on the earth. You find a list of the giants of the iron meteorites in the section Records.