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The largest surviving fragment, viewable in the visitor center, weighs 3/4 tons. Current theories place the size of the meteor as 150 feet in diameter, and its weight at 300,000 tons.
Specialists from Peru's Geophysical Institute came to the area, 600 miles (965 kilometers) south of Lima, to verify if it actually was a meteorite. Some experts have questioned whether it was a meteorite or some other object that landed in Carancas. Authorities took soil and water samples near the crater for analysis.xperts from Peru's nuclear energy institute estimated that the meteorite was no more than 3 feet in diameter when it smashed into Earth at an extremely high speed. That piece may have been all that remained of a much larger object that burned up while streaking through Earth's atmosphere, experts said.