Size Duel deck / Space
Hoba meteorite
Mass: the single iron mass, where it lies
about 60 t (132,300 lb)
An iron meteorite in Namibia that has never been moved.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“weighs about 60 tonnes”Australian Museum: source, retrieved 2026-10-28; quote re-found by the server check
“60-tonne rock”Shelleygan Petersen / The Namibian: source, retrieved 2026-10-28; quote re-found by the server check
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