In 1920, in Namibia, a farmer, while wandering near a farm, noticed a large dark rock and sat down on it. Scratching it, he realizes that underneath it is shiny and shiny, so he takes off a piece and has it analyzed

At the SWA Maatskappy in Grootfontein they establish that it is a meteorite. It is called Hoba, from the name of the site where it was found, thus becoming a national monument of Namibia.

It is estimated that the total weight of iron and nickel of which it was composed was 66,000 kg, of which 500 ended up in research laboratories, but it still remains the largest single mass of natural iron present on the earth's surface.

A curiosity concerns the place where it is located: although Hoba is the largest known meteorite in the world, there is no crater around it.

Probably the enormous mass of metal hit the earth's surface through a closed angle and then bounced back like a flat stone behaves when thrown onto the surface of the water.