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The Largest Meteorite Ever Found Doesn't Even Have a Crater - Neatorama

Some 80,000 years ago, a huge iron and nickel meteor landed on earth in what would eventually become the Hoba West farm near Grootfontein in Namibia. In 1920, a farmer ran into the big hunk of metal while plowing, and scientists have been studying the Hoba meteorite ever since. How did such a large meteorite survive and not leave a huge crater? There are several reasons. One is the meteorite's shape, which is assumed to be a remnant of a much more massive meteor. It is a slab, and had to have ar