Giant meteorites

Giant meteorites

About 500 meteorites reach earth every year. Many fall in the sea and in unpopulated areas and are never seen. The Hoba meteorites, the largest in the world, was found in Namibia in 1920. It measures 2.73×2.43m and is per cent iron and 16 per cent nickel. It weighs more than 60 tonnes. Second largest is the Tent, found in Greenland in 1894 and now known by its original Eskimo name, Ahnighito. This meteorite weighs about 57.3 tonnes and is on display in the New York Museum of Natural History.