In 2015, Argentine police foiled the theft of 3,300 pounds of space rocks from Campo del Cielo. In another news report from 2019, a group of people was caught trying to steal three large meteorites.

Campo del Cielo features 1,350 square kilometers of meteorite impacts formed 4,000 years ago when a huge metallic fireball struck Earth at almost a right angle, as if trying to make a graceful ...

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 ...

I decided to use a Campo del Cielo meteorite, which is the name the place it fell to in Argentina. It was an extremely large meteor shower, a huge amount of material fell to earth, over 100 tons.

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 ...

This photo supplied by the Macovich Collection shows a 355-pound iron meteorite from Campo del Cielo (Valley of the Sky), Argentina on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, in New York.

So far, about 80 tons of that original asteroid have been recovered from Campo del Cielo, Preston says. The largest-known piece weighs 37 tons and is displayed on the Campo del Cielo site.

Many of the smaller meteorites have been stolen from Campo del Cielo by tourists collecting souvenirs and meteorite traffickers. Scientists say Gancedo will be reweighed to get an exact measurement.

The ancient meteorite I chose to work with was found in the Formosa province of Argentina in the area known as Campo del Cielo, or Field of the Sky, which informed the title of my work. This ...