The Cape York meteorite', which collided with Earth nearly 10,000 years ago, is named for Cape York, the location of its discovery in Greenland, and is one of the largest meteorites in the world. It was primarily made up of Iron and Nickel metals and weighs over 50,000kg, though it had broken up into three pieces, known to the Inuit as Ahnighito (the Tent), weighing 31 tons, the Woman (2½ tons), and the Dog (½ ton). For centuries, Inuit living near it used it as a source of metal for tools and harpoons. Categories: Australia geography stubs | Peninsulas | Headlands ... Bacubirito in Culiacan, Mexico is the second largest meteorite in the Americas, and fifth largest in the world A meteorite is a small extraterrestrial body that reaches the Earths surface. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... General Name, Symbol, Number nickel, Ni, 28 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 4, d Appearance lustrous, metallic Atomic mass 58. ... Inuit woman Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, singular Inuk or Inuq / ᐃᓄᒃ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of the Arctic who descended from the Thule. ...

The first rumors of its existence reached scientific circles in 1818. Five expeditions between 1818 and 1883 failed to find the source of the iron. It was finally discovered in 1894 by Robert Peary, the famous Arctic explorer, who had enlisted the help of a local guide who brought him to Saviksoah Island off northern Greenland’s Cape York in 1894. Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who is usually credited as the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole. ... Categories: Australia geography stubs | Peninsulas | Headlands ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

It took Peary three years to manage to load the pieces onto ships and required the building of Greenland’s only railway.

He sold the pieces for $40,000 to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City where they still stand (2005). The 3.4 m x 2.1 m x 1.7 m Ahnighito is now on display in the Arthur Ross Hall. The whole is so heavy that its supports must reach down through the museum floor to bedrock. The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark of Manhattans Upper West Side in New York, at 79th Street and Central Park West. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ...