This June 39 we remember one of the most important dates for those who contemplate space security and its vulnerabilities, accompany us to raise awareness about the latent danger of meteors

1. International day of the asteroid
30th of june

2. Why this day is important?

3. One of them meteorites is El Chaco this meteorit
is the biggest in America. It is composed mainly
of iron and nickel.

4. Hoba, is the heaviest meteor and the largest
natural mass of iron that is known on the surface
of the earth.

5. Ahnighito, this meteorite of almost three and a
half meters. It was discovered in 1984 at
Greenland by an explorer named Robert Perry

6. Armanty, is a very dense metal meteorite,
composed mainly of iron. It was discovered in
1898 near the border between China and
Mongolia.
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7. Bacubirito, was discovered in 1893 by people from the town of
Bacubirito, located in Sinaloa, México; It measured 4 meters
long by wide and is the second biggest meteor in America just
behind the Chaco meteorite.

8. Agpalilik, was discovered in
1963 at Greenland by a back
wood hole nicknamed
Agpalilik.
It is one of the most
important stellar of
Greenland after the little
meteorite both pieces come
from the same body
Yorkshire known as a
meteorite.

9. Mbosi, it´s three meters
long and a meter high
and it is composed iron
and nickel silicate
inclusions, I was
discovered in 1930 in
Southern Tanzania.

10. Willamete, was discovered in Oregon in 1902 and it´s the largest
meteor that has been found in the USA. It is a metallic type,
composed of iron and nickel and its holes are formed by the
action of the rain in the place of the discovery

11. Chupaderos 1 was discovered in 1852 in the State of
Chihuahua, México. Its measures two and a half meters and it
is composed of iron and nickel.

12. Mundrabilla, it is the
largest meteor that has
been found in Australia. It
was discovered in 1966 by
two geologist in the plain
of Nullarbor. It is
composed of nickel, iron
and graphite.

13. On December 6, 2016, the General Assembly
of the United Nations adopted resolution
and declaring June 30 the International
Asteroid Day "to celebrate each year at the
international level the anniversary of the
impact of Tunguska, in Siberia (Russian
Federation), which occurred on June 30,
1908, and to increase public awareness of
the danger of impact of asteroids ».