Did You Know - Namibia Hoba Meteorite Is The Largest Meteorite In The World
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The Hoba Meteorite is the largest intact meteorite in the world, which was also declared a national monument on 15th March 1955. Its age varies between 190 and 410 million years, and due to the presence of a rare nickel element scientists were unable to determine the fitting age of the Hoba meteorite.
Namibia is home to the largest Meteorite in the World.
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BILLION DOLLAR METEORITE (WORLD'S LARGEST) - GROOTFONTEIN, NAMIBIA // Planet Michaels Family
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We traveled to Grootfontein in Namibia to see the largest meteorite on display in the world and it was AMAZING! The kiddos even stood on top of the meteorite! Some people tried to steal a piece of this billion dollar rock, but they did not succeed. Check it out for yourself!
This Meteorite is still magnetic and the value is approximately 1 Billion US$ Dollars. Have you ever stood on top of something so expensive in your life? We have!
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✔ The 66 Ton Meteor Without A Crater / Hoba Meteorite Namibia Africa
The Hoba meteorite: 66 Tons of Iron and Nickle But No Crater
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Every day the Earth is hit with 100 pounds or more of meteoric materials. Mostly bits and pieces of asteroids and other space rocks composed mainly of rock, iron, and nickel. They have been in space for billions of years. Luckily when they fall to Earth, there is rarely any damage.
Some meteors make it into the news some never even get noticed. Others can wipe out entire species and change the face of the Earth forever. Like that one that managed to wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Some of you may remember in 1992. A far less hazardous meteorite fell to the Earth. About the size of a bowling ball, it crashed into a car parked in the driveway of a Peekskill, New York Home. With a loud bang, the meteor crashed into the 1980 Chevrolet Malibu. And for its size, the rock was astoundingly heavy. Weighing about 18 pounds. Other than the unlucky car there were no casualties.
In The Strange Hoba meteorite case. Possibly the strangest of all meteorites. Which is deemed to be the worlds biggest meteorite fragment. Weighing 66 tones. Left no impact crater when it fell to the Earth. Scientists have proposed that the massive rock. Slowed down as it entered the Earth's atmosphere. It apparently slowed down so much that it only fell at terminal velocity. As it impacted the ground where it fell in Namibia.
That's why the Hoba Meteorite remained intact. When it was being excavated. This immense iron rock was never moved from its original impact point.
Laying hidden on a farm in north-central Namibia, Africa. Close to the city of Grootfontein. The Hoba Meteorite was found almost by chance by a local farmer.
The Farmer Hermanus Brits literally tripped on the meteor in 1920. When he was working at his Hoba farm. From which the meteor got its name. Brits later described the moment he discovered the meteorite. Only the top part of the rock was visible. The color was black. The soil all around it was chalky. “I scratched the rock with my knife and saw there was a shine beneath the surface,” He said in one statement
After Brits informed local authorities about the find, it was quickly discovered that this was a massive meteorite. The meteorite is made of 84 percent iron and 15 percent nickel, and as a class of iron meteorite, it is the best example ever found on the Earth’s surface.
Only about 5 percent of meteorites. That fall to Earth are similar in their composition to the Hoba meteorite. They are also large, but not as large as Hoba, at least, until a bigger one falls to Earth.
Because of a presence of a rare radioactive nickel isotope. Experts have been able to learn the approximate age of the Hoba meteorite. Which is estimated between 190 million and 410 million years old.
It ended its space flight about 80,000 years ago when it fell to earth without leaving a crater.
The first notable scientific studies of the Hoba meteorite were produced by 1929. Ever since then the megalithic meteor has been gaining more and more fame. Some vandals over the years have chipped off small pieces of the meteor. And to help protect the massive Hoba meteor. Local authorities have developed a manageable visitor site around it.
The Hoba meteorite was named as a national monument in Namibia back in the year 1955. In 1979 that status was briefly canceled then renewed and the site surrounding the meteor extended. By the end, of the 80's and information center was placed on the site.
I doubt Namibia is the first place you think about visiting when you think of your next adventure vacation. But hey where else can you visit a massive iron meteor that mysteriously never left a crater.
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The Hoba meteorite | The World's Largest Meteorite in Namibia
The Hoba meteorite | The World's Largest Meteorite in Namibia
The Hoba meteorite has this name because it is lies on the farm Hoba West not far from Grootfontein, in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. It has been uncovered but, because of its large mass, has never been moved from where it fell. The main mass is estimated at more than 60 tonnes, making it the largest known meteorite as a single piece and the most massive naturally occurring piece of iron known at the Earth's surface. The Hoba meteorite is thought to have fallen more recently than 80,000 years ago. It is inferred that the Earth's atmosphere slowed the object to the point that it fell to the surface at terminal velocity, thereby remaining intact and causing little excavation. Hoba is a tabloid body of metal, measuring 2.7×2.7×0.9 meters. The meteorite is composed of about 84% iron and 16% nickel and 0.76% cobalt.
The Hoba meteorite was discovered in 1920 by the land owner, Jacobus Hermanus Brits, encountered the object while ploughing one of his fields with an ox. During this task, he heard a loud metallic scratching sound and the plough came to an abrupt halt. The obstruction was excavated, identified as a meteorite. In 1954 the curator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York tried to purchase the Hoba Meteorite. It was only owing to transportation problems owing to its weight that the meteorite remained in Namibia. Immediately following this matter a group of concerned locals brought the 'near calamity' to light and the following year it was proclaimed a National Monument.
It is surprising that this meteorite is not surrounded by a crater. Objects of this size should punch through the atmosphere at a very high rate of speed and hit Earth with enough force to blast a significant crater, but no crater is present around the site of the meteorite. This suggests that it fell to earth at a lower rate of speed than expected. Some scientists believe that the flat shape of the object may be responsible for its low velocity at impact. The meteorite is estimated to be between 190 and 410 million years old. The site was declared a National Monument in 1955, though you couldn't visit it until 1985. The site has now been improved very well, a good opportunity to get close up, that anyone can touch it even anyone can stand upon. A small tourist center and is visited by thousands of people each year.
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The Hoba meteorite | The World's Largest Meteorite in Namibia
The Hoba meteorite has this name because it is lies on the farm Hoba West not far from Grootfontein, in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. It has been uncovered but, because of its large mass, has never been moved from where it fell. The main mass is estimated at more than 60 tonnes, making it the largest known meteorite as a single piece and the most massive naturally occurring piece of iron known at the Earth's surface. The Hoba meteorite is thought to have fallen more recently than 80,000 years ago. It is inferred that the Earth's atmosphere slowed the object to the point that it fell to the surface at terminal velocity, thereby remaining intact and causing little excavation. Hoba is a tabloid body of metal, measuring 2.7×2.7×0.9 meters. The meteorite is composed of about 84% iron and 16% nickel and 0.76% cobalt.
The Hoba meteorite was discovered in 1920 by the land owner, Jacobus Hermanus Brits, encountered the object while ploughing one of his fields with an ox. During this task, he heard a loud metallic scratching sound and the plough came to an abrupt halt. The obstruction was excavated, identified as a meteorite. In 1954 the curator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York tried to purchase the Hoba Meteorite. It was only owing to transportation problems owing to its weight that the meteorite remained in Namibia. Immediately following this matter a group of concerned locals brought the 'near calamity' to light and the following year it was proclaimed a National Monument.
It is surprising that this meteorite is not surrounded by a crater. Objects of this size should punch through the atmosphere at a very high rate of speed and hit Earth with enough force to blast a significant crater, but no crater is present around the site of the meteorite. This suggests that it fell to earth at a lower rate of speed than expected. Some scientists believe that the flat shape of the object may be responsible for its low velocity at impact. The meteorite is estimated to be between 190 and 410 million years old. The site was declared a National Monument in 1955, though you couldn't visit it until 1985. The site has now been improved very well, a good opportunity to get close up, that anyone can touch it even anyone can stand upon. A small tourist center and is visited by thousands of people each year.
Namibia, Grootfontein - Hoba Meteorite (2019)
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Largest Meteorite on Earth - Part of Namibia's Heritage. Joseph Sheefeni
Deadly but also beautiful... a meteorite hurtling towards Earth from space! The Hoba meteorite crashed into the planet around 80 000 years ago, but it was only in 1920 that a farmer in Grootfontein actually discovered it. Today the Hoba meteorite, made of iron and weighing 66-tons, is a natural heritage site, one of many the National Heritage Council, NHC, of Namibia urges the public to visit during Namibian heritage week in September. There are three categories of heritage in Namibia namely natural, cultural as well as liberation heritage, as the NHC's Beverly van Wyk explains.
Every two years the National Heritage Council announces new entrance fees at the heritage sites it directly manages, and that is the case this year. The National Heritage Council of Namibia has announced that Namibians will be able to visit the Hoba meteorite site and the nine other heritage sites under it's direct management, for free, during the Namibian Heritage Week.
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The Hoba meteorite in Namibia, South Africa, is not only the largest space rock on Earth, but it's by far the heaviest, too!
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TOP 5 METEORITE FALLS
Meteorite falls, also called observed falls, are meteorites collected after their fall from space was observed by people or automated devices. All other meteorites are called finds. There are more than 1,100 documented falls listed in widely used databases, most of which have specimens in modern collections. As of early 2018, the Meteoritical Bulletin Database has 1,161 confirmed falls.
Observed meteorite falls are interesting for several reasons. Material from observed falls has not been subjected to terrestrial weathering, making the find a better candidate for scientific study. Historically, observed falls were the most compelling evidence supporting the extraterrestrial origin of meteorites. Furthermore, observed fall discoveries are a better representative sample of the types of meteorites which fall to Earth. For example, iron meteorites take much longer to weather and are easier to identify as unusual objects, as compared to other types. This may explain the increased proportion of iron meteorites among finds (6.7%), over that among observed falls (4.4%). There is also detailed statistics on falls such as based on meteorite classification. As of early 2018, the Meteoritical Bulletin Database has 1,161 confirmed falls with statistics for the previous decades in the table to the right. Specifically, confirmed falls were eight for 2015, eleven for 2016, and four so far for 2017.
The German physicist Ernst Cladni, sometimes considered as the father of meteoritics, was the first to publish (in 1794) the then audacious idea that meteorites were rocks from space. There were already several documented cases, one of the earliest was the Aegospotami meteorite of 467 BC and which became a landmark for 500 years.
While most confirmed falls involve masses between less than one kg to several kg, some reach 100 kg or more. A few are even more than one metric ton. The six largest falls are listed below and five (except the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite) occurred during the 20th century. Presumably, events of such magnitude may happen a few times per century but, especially if it occurred in remote areas, may have gone unreported. For comparison, the largest finds are the 60-ton Hoba meteorite, a 37-ton fragment (El Chaco) and a 30.8-ton fragment (Gancedo) of the Campo del Cielo, and a 30.9-ton fragment (Ahnighito) of the Cape York meteorite.
The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide caused by an approximately 20-metre near-Earth asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC), with a speed of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (60,000–69,000 km/h or 40,000–42,900 mph). It quickly became a brilliant superbolide meteor over the southern Ural region. The light from the meteor was brighter than the Sun, visible up to 100 km (62 mi) away. It was observed over a wide area of the region and in neighbouring republics. Some eyewitnesses also felt intense heat from the fireball.
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So what do you do when you find a 600 ton nickel in your yard? We decided to check it out. This a small part of our road trip across Southern Africa. A trip from Tanzania and the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic off the coast of Namibia.
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Hoba Meteorite Video Details
The next day we made a short detour to the 800,000 year old Hoba meteorite (found on the Hoba West farm) not far from Grootfontein, in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. Say that 3 times. It was discovered by chance when the farmer was plowing his fields. The 66-ton meteorite was then uncovered but never moved due to its weight. It is 82% iron and 18% nickel, with traces of cobalt.
After the wonders of the Hoba meteorite Ben let air out of the tires to better handle the softer gravel tracts.
It’s incredible that wildlife can exist in this dry and harsh landscape. Yet Ben tells me that the land will become even drier and the animals more exotic, as we work our way west towards the Skeleton Coast.
Game fences keep the regions separated incase of disease and provides for anti-poaching inspections.
RASC-TC Hoba Meteorite in Namibia
Charline Norgrove recently took a trip to Namibia, Africa to see the Hoba Meteorite, which is the largest known meteorite (as a single piece) in the world. She spoke about her trip and the meteorite on November 7, 2018 at the Recreational Astronomy Night meeting, which was held at the Ontario Science Centre. Charline is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada -- Toronto Centre.
Hoba metiorite in Grootfontein area, Namibia
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Hoba[1] (also known as Hoba West) (pron. HOE-bah) is a meteorite that lies on the farm Hoba West, not far from Grootfontein, in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. It has been uncovered but, because of its large mass, has never been moved from where it fell. The main mass is estimated at more than 60 tonnes,[1] making it the largest known meteorite (as a single piece) and the most massive naturally occurring piece of iron known at the Earth's surface.
The Hoba meteorite is thought to have fallen more recently than 80,000 years ago. It is inferred that the Earth's atmosphere slowed the object to the point that it fell to the surface at terminal velocity, thereby remaining intact and causing little excavation. Assuming a drag coefficient of about 1.3, the meteor would have been slowed to a mere 716 miles per hour (320 metres per second (1,000 ft/s); contrast this with typical orbital speeds of several km/s). The meteorite is unusual in that it is flat on both major surfaces, possibly causing it to have skipped across the top of the atmosphere in the way a flat stone skips on water.