Another meteorite, found in Brazil, weighing 7,000 kilograms, the same amount it did not exceed 1 cu. meter, two lumps of iron found in Hupaderosa in Mexico and owned by one of the meteorite, was 4.65 meters long and 1.5 meters wide and weighed about 24 - 25 thousand pounds, weight metallic meteorites reach 200 - 300 pounds, in general, they rarely are heavier than 50 kilograms, and in most cases, weigh much less. Whole meteorite of small size are very rare, because of the difficulty of their search technique. After a meteor shower at Hesley, near Uppsala in Sweden, 1 January 1869, the white shroud of snow, dressing the Earth, has helped to find a small meteorites: found instances of extremely small size, the tiniest of them to be stored in Stockholm, weighs 0.06, the
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