Northern Argentina’s Campo del Cielo is where the world's largest mass of meteorites has been found. And it has also been plagued by theft for years, something Argentina is trying to fight. The ...

Small and large meteorites alike from Campo del Cielo that were taken illegally are sold online. “In the ‘90s someone even tried to take El Chaco,” López says.

The meteorite itself comes from a group of iron space rocks known as the Campo del Cielo meteorites found in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The site is home to at least 26 craters estimated to be about ...

For Campo del Cielo, Field of the Sky, 2012, Paterson melted down a meteorite found in Argentina and re-formed it into the same shape.The European Space Agency brought it to the International ...

In some instances, there is so much it -- many tons in the case of the Campo del Cielo meteorites that hit Argentina several thousand years ago, for example -- that prices for shards of that ...

Campo del Cielo occurred around 4,000 years ago, scattering a huge number of iron-rich meteorites over a large area. So far, 26 craters have been found and around 100 tons of meteorite samples ...

A shiny piece of the Campo del Cielo meteorite from Argentina. Credit: Bjoern Wylezich / iStock / Getty Images Plus Girardin's meteorite vodka was aged in an amphora , a traditional Italian clay ...

Meteorite Dealers Hunt for the Perfect Rock From Morocco's mountains to Arizona's deserts, collectors, scientists and profit-minded middlemen are searching for The Rock. ... Bob Cucchiara examines a ...

Similarly, California-based blacksmith Tony Swatton produced a replica of Sokka's sword from the animated series "Avatar: the Last Airbender" using fragments of the Campo del Cielo meteorite found ...

It's OK to touch the new 126-pound meteorite at Calusa Nature Center in Fort Myers. ... So far, about 80 tons of that original asteroid have been recovered from Campo del Cielo, ...

Tag: Campo del Cielo. Wednesday, April 27th 2022 - 08:15 UTC Uruguayan Navy averts attempt to smuggle large meteorite from Argentina. Uruguayan authorities at the port of Paysandú have seized a ...

In 2011, I was approached by the arts producer Di Robson of DREAM to create a new commission for Exhibition Road Show, a festival of the arts and science taking place on the Road over the Olympics ...