Meteor Namibia 2021

Mar 15, 2026 5:44 PM

The Hoba meteorite
in Namibia is the world's largest known intact meteorite, a 60-plus ton iron-nickel slab that fell roughly 80,000 years ago. Located near Grootfontein, this massive, 84% iron specimen remains at its original landing site and is a protected national monument

That's quite neato. Looks like it has been nibbled on a bit.

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Meteor? I just met er.

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I know a piece of the Vogon construction fleet when I see it.

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Wakanda Forever!

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how deep is it in the ground?

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See my comment elsewhere in this thread. My calculations show it's just sitting on the surface, about 2.5 feet thick.

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Looks like part of a spaceship. ;-)

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According to my calculations, that's all of it. At 490lb/cubic foot and about 100 square feet in plan area, it should be about 2.5 feet thick, so we're seeing everything. It apparently just smacked like a belly flop into the ground and stopped.

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So it didn't spin on its edge like a coin and then go "wob wob wob wobwobwobwbwbwbbbbb" before settling down?

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It may have. I wonder if it's heads or tails?

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and now I want chocolate pie

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Just missed that guy on the right.

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They look mildly interested

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Tourists! Amiright?

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Shep! Where you I been?! Awesome find with the vibranium!

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I'm in the process of moving to a new country, currently selling my house

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God speed! I have the memory of a goldfish so if you said it, I may have forgotten lol. Everything going well?

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Can visitors touch it? Probably should not ne allowed. But I'm very gentle and polite and I wanna..

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The wear on the ridges on top looks like it's from people climbing on it. So protected, but not too protected.

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It fell from space, I don't think you'll break it

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You can touch it still, I climbed on top of it to make poses.

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Is the nickel in the front or the back?

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Crazy that it landed right in the middle of those circles!

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Zeus help aim it using the Jewish space Lazer. 🤔

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Good aim.

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Anyone checked what’s inside it? We’ve all seen the movies…

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This you, @AisforApple?

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Those circles are ancient fancy magnates, they pulled the meteorite in from orbit and gently placed it in the middle of the circles to be worshipped. That's the story my tin foil hat tells me.

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Lol!

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It didn't, silly... the aliens put crop circles around it right after it landed!

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As the legend foretold…

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