导读:科学家们于9月10日在阿根廷小镇赛多发现了一块重30吨巨型陨石，是世界第二大陨石。
Locals in the small Argentinian town of Gancedo were in for a surprise when a massive meteorite was discovered earlier this week.
本周初，阿根廷小镇赛多的居民们惊奇地发现了一块巨型陨石。
The meteorite weighs a massive 30 tonnes, and is the second biggest to have ever been found.
据测量，这块陨石重30吨，是世界第二大陨石。
The huge rock of space debris will now be re-measured to confirm its size.
官方正在重新测量其碎块，以确定其具体尺寸。
The meteorite was discovered by scientists on September 10.
这块陨石是在9月10日被科学家们发现。
It was found in the town of Gancedo, 674 miles (1,085km) north of the country’s capital, Buenos Aires.
陨石最初被发现是在赛多，位于阿根廷首都布宜诺斯艾利斯北部1085千米的地方。
No indication has yet been given of its width or height.
目前，没有任何迹象能表明陨石的宽度和重量。
Mario Vesconi, President of the Astronomy Association of Chaco, told Xinhua News Agency: ’While we hoped for weights above what had been registered, we did not expect it to exceed 30 tonnes.’
查科省天文学探险协会会长马里奥告诉新华社记者，“虽然我们很想登记陨石的重量，但是我们没料到它能超过30公吨。”
He added: ’It was in Campo del Cielo, where a shower of metallic meteorites fell around 4,000 years ago.’
他补充道：“它是在坎普德尔切洛地区被发现，该地区在4000年前曾经发生过一场流星雨。”
The meteor shower took place in a region of Argentina located between the provinces of Chaco and Santiago del Estero.
这场流星雨降落在阿根廷查科省和圣地亚哥-德尔埃斯特罗省之间的地区。
The original space rock weighed an estimated 800 tonnes and hailed from the Main Asteroid Belt located between Mars and Jupiter.
这块陨石来自火星和木星之间的主小行星带，原始重量达800吨。
It split into multiple meteorites that branched out over an area of approximately 124 square miles (320 square kilometres).
它现已碎裂成多块陨石，分布在周围320平方千米的区域。
The Gancedo meteorite is the second biggest in size to the Hoba meteorite, weighing 66 tonnes in Namibia.
这块赛多陨石相较于纳米比亚世界第一大66吨的霍巴陨石，排名世界第二。
A previously discovered meteorite in the El Chaco area weighed 2,884 tonnes, meaning Argentina now has two of the world’s largest meteorites.
早先在埃尔查科发现的陨石重2884公吨，这意味着阿根廷有着两颗世界最大的陨石。
