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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

hoba
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Fruit of the hobo tree, mango plum, chupadilla, crazy plum, jobo, yuplón or wild plum. In Brazil it is called cajá or taperebá. Its scientific name is Spondias mombin and belongs to the family Name given to the largest and heaviest meteorite in the world (largest block or piece of iron in the world as well). It is located in the city of Grootfontein (Namibia).

  




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HOBA's largest one-piece meteorite was discovered shortly before 1920 at the Hoba West farm in northern Namibia. Known as 'Hoba meteorite', this im block is an iron-nickel alloy with a rectangular peform of 3 x 3 x 1 meters and a weight that exceeds 61. 000 kilos . It was described shortly after its discovery by scientist Jacobus Hermanus Brits, whose original 1920 report can be seen at the Grootfontein Museum in Namibia, South Africa.

  



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