The Bacubirito meteorite was fund in 1863 by the geologist Gilbert Ellis Bailey in the village of Ranchito near the town of Sinaloa de Leyva. He had been sent there by the Chicago journal the ...

The Bacubirito meteorite was found in Mexico in 1863. The stone is composed mostly of iron and weighs around 20 tons. Today, Bacubirito can be found in a gallery called the Sanctuary in Sinaloa, ...

Specs: The Bacubirito Meteorite weighs 24 tons—much smaller than the ones described above—but measuring 14 feet across, it is one of the longest meteorites ever found.

The meteorite is described by Prof. Ward in the Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Science ... travelled from the city of Mexico to Bacubirito, an extremely long, arduous, and expensive ...