The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater when it fell to Earth

Re:The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater ... by PhantomGremlin on Saturday November 10, 2018 @05:48PM (#18423935)

Yeah, that verbiage also caught my eye. I think they might have been trying to say something like

   iron meteorites are the only pieces
   of iron on the Earth not made by men

Which, depending on the definition of the words "on the Earth", isn't much better. After all, iron is an element and, according to Wikipedia: is by mass the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core.

The USA has a very large iron meteorite on display. It was "stolen" from native peoples in Oregon and eventually "stolen" again by New Yorkers and put on display.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willamette_Meteorite

Despite my use of "stolen", I think NYC is a great place for something like that. As a child I saw this meteorite in the American Museum of Natural History.

Museums are great places. At least 1000x as many people have seen the Willamette Meteorite than have seen the Hoba meteorite.

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Re:The Hoba meteorite, estimated at 66 tons, left no crater ... by cronix on Saturday November 10, 2018 @06:22PM (#18424059)

Yes, I actually live in West Linn, OR, and that's what caught my attention since it's kind of famous around here. I had also recently been reading about the dagger found buried with King Tut, which seems to have likely come from a meteor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_...

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