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The largest meteorite ever found is a 66-ton iron meteorite called `Hoba`, found In 1920 by a farmer was plowing a field near Grootfontein, Namibia. It is also the largest piece of iron ever found near Earth's surface. It is tabular in shape and about nine feet long, nine feet wide and about three feet thick. It was given the name "Hoba" because it was discovered on a farm named "Hoba West".

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