• Question: Whats The Biggest meteorite You have found

    Asked by KaiM to queeniechan, pratibhagautam, niamhtopping, joshuahollowood on 2 Oct 2025.
    • Photo: Pratibha Gautam

      Pratibha Gautam answered on 2 Oct 2025:

      I personally haven’t found any meteorite yet. I have just seen/used pieces of the ones already found by other scientists. However, I knopw that the biggest single meteorite ever found is the Hoba meteorite, which weighs over 60 tons (60,000 kg) and is located in Namibia.

    • Photo: Joshua Hollowood

      Joshua Hollowood answered on 3 Oct 2025:

      I haven’t found any meteorites myself, however, I have worked with a 3-gram piece of Allende. The total weight of Allende when it landed on Earth was 2000kg.

      I would one dat like to help find meteorites in Antarctica! This is where a large amount of NASAs samples are collected.

    • Photo: Niamh Topping

      Niamh Topping answered on 20 Oct 2025:

      I’ve never found one myself (yet!) but I have taken part in two meteorite hunts un the UK which were sadly unsuccessful. The best places in the world to look for meteorites is the desert – North west Africa, Antarctica and the Nullabor in Australia to name some of the big ones

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