Famous findFound in 1784; date of fall unknown · found 1784
The Bendegó Meteorite: five tonnes of space iron found by a cowherd boy in Brazil
In 1784 a boy herding cattle near Monte Santo in Bahia, Brazil, came across a huge lump of metal. It was an iron meteorite weighing more than five tonnes. A first attempt to move it crashed into a creek bed, where it stayed for a century.