[PHOTO] Three photos of two meteorites at the AMNH (@amnh)

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Ahnighito, a fragment of the massive Cape York meteorite that itself masses 31 tons, is immense. The fact that the museum was able to transfer this fragment from its Greenland home to here is itself an achievement. The displayed fragment of the similar Sikhote-Alin meteorite, which impacted the Russian Maritime Territory in 1947 is smaller, but the fact of these fragments' existence--shards of solid iron bodies sheared into pieces by the force of impact--is humbling. The universe is so vast.