Famous findFell to Earth less than 80,000 years ago · found 1920
The Hoba Meteorite: the largest meteorite on Earth, still lying where it landed in Namibia
Around 1920 a farmer on Hoba West farm in northern Namibia came across a strange black rock that shone when he scraped it. It was a slab of iron and nickel weighing about 60 tonnes, the largest meteorite known, and it has never been moved.