Key facts
- Category
- Meteoritic material
- Object class
- Iron meteoroid
- Scale fact
- ~2.7 mpre-entry diameter
- Composition
- Iron-nickel metal
Hoba Meteoroid
~2.7 mpre-entry diameter
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Details
The Hoba meteoroid is represented here by an approximate pre-impact size, not just by the surviving iron meteorite in Namibia. Hoba is the largest intact meteorite known on Earth. No impact crater is preserved at the site, and why it arrived without one remains uncertain.
Hoba survives as a single iron-rich mass of roughly 60 metric tons, still lying near where it was found in 1920. Its shape, atmospheric passage, and impact conditions may all have contributed to the absence of a crater, but the event was not observed and the explanation is not settled. The surviving meteorite is measured directly; the incoming body shown here is necessarily an estimate.
Links
- Wikipedia
- Hoba Meteoroid on Wikipedia
Size neighbors
Objects near Hoba Meteoroid on the scale
On the logarithmic size axis, Hoba Meteoroid falls between Nakhla Meteoroid and Chelyabinsk Meteoroid. The band uses nearby Meteoritic material records.
Shared physical scale
42.1m
Sources
References for Hoba Meteoroid
Measurements and descriptive context are compiled by the Scale of Space team from the references below. If you find an error, please let us know.
- Hoba Meteoroid — Wikipedia
- Visual: scaleofspace.org / CC BY-NC 4.0
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