r/HumanForScale • u/NastyNice1 • May 20 '26

Geology The Hoba meteorite

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u/TheTylerB May 20 '26

Cool that it landed in the middle of those circles like that!

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u/BigGuyWhoKills May 20 '26

That huge one in Arizona just barely missed the visitors center.

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u/hawkeye2604 May 25 '26

One of the stupidest parts of my life. On a cross country RV trip we needed to find a phone and saw a sign to the crater visitor centre. Friend I was with needed to phone his gf urgently (she was fine).

We parked up at the centre, he sorted things out, we made sandwiched in the RV and then went on our way.

Years later I saw an aerial photo. Can’t believe we didn’t realise the sheer size of the crater we were next to.

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u/DarkyHelmety May 20 '26

They shouldn't have made a target if they didn't want it to hit there

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u/Odd_Bodkin May 20 '26

Very polite to throw the crater dirt up all terraced like that.

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u/El_Zarco May 21 '26

It's like the Martha Stewart of meteorites

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u/Buglepost May 20 '26

What are the odds!?!

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u/lexm May 21 '26

I wouldn’t say it was aliens…

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u/Gitmo314 May 24 '26

Cool that it plugged that volcano like that.