. Guide leaflet. Above: The Hoba Meteorite. The largest known meteorite, located near Grootfontein, S. , estimated to weigh from 50 to 70 tons. The second person from the left is Dr. L. J. Spencer,who was there in charge of the meteorites in the British Museum of Natural History. Below: The Ahnighito Meteorite. The Ahnighito, weighing 36I/2 tons, the largest meteoritein any museum, brought from Greenland in 1897 by Peary. Three other large iron meteorites,pretty surely of the same fall as the Ahnighito, were found nearby. Pieces of one of these hadbeen laboriously hammer off by the Esk
. Guide leaflet. Above: The Hoba Meteorite. The largest known meteorite, located near Grootfontein, S. , estimated to weigh from 50 to 70 tons. The second person from the left is Dr. L. J. Spencer,who was there in charge of the meteorites in the British Museum of Natural History. Below: The Ahnighito Meteorite. The Ahnighito, weighing 36I/2 tons, the largest meteoritein any museum, brought from Greenland in 1897 by Peary. Three other large iron meteorites,pretty surely of the same fall as the Ahnighito, were found nearby. Pieces of one of these hadbeen laboriously hammer off by the Eskimos for knives. Clyde Fisher in foreground. SJi.^^^S^.
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