Of the roughly 80,000 officially cataloged meteorites in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database, a handful of iron masses contain the bulk of all extraterrestrial material ever found on Earth surface. Dense nickel-iron alloys resist weathering for millennia, allowing giant specimens to survive.
- Hoba (Otjozondjupa, Namibia): 60 metric tons. The largest intact meteorite on Earth. It has never been moved from its discovery spot on Hoba West farm and sits as a national monument in a natural amphitheater.
- Campo del Cielo (Gancedo fragment, Chaco, Argentina): 30.8 metric tons. Excavated in 2016 from a crater field produced 4,000 years ago.
- Campo del Cielo (El Chaco fragment, Chaco, Argentina): 28.8 metric tons. Located at the Campo del Cielo Provincial Park in Argentina.
- Cape York (Ahnighito / The Tent, Greenland): 30.9 metric tons. Transported by Robert Peary in 1897 to New York City, it is displayed in the Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites at the American Museum of Natural History.
- Armanty (Xinjiang, China): 28 metric tons. Recovered from the Gobi Desert and displayed outside the Geological Museum of Xinjiang in Urumqi.
- Bacubirito (Sinaloa, Mexico): 20 to 22 metric tons. Displayed at the Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa in Culiacan.
- Cape York (Agpalilik, Greenland): 20.1 metric tons. Discovered in 1963 by Vagn Buchwald and exhibited at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Mbosi (Tanzania): 16 metric tons. Revered locally for centuries before being scientifically documented in 1930; displayed on a plinth near Mbeya.
- Campo del Cielo (La Sorpresa, Argentina): 14.8 metric tons.
- Willamette (Oregon, United States): 14.1 metric tons. Discovered in 1902 and revered by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community as Tomanowos. Displayed in the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.