Description: Meteorites from the Grootfontein fall that were found in the strew field. Even the smallest of these weighed more than 200 pounds. At least I could not pick up the smallest on them. They used to keep them in the park till someone tied a rope to one of them and tried to drag it away. In the morning they found a broken rope and the meteorite that they had managed to drag about 20 feet from the pile of its cousins. In the mid 70s they had moved them to the old fort at the top of the hill which was kept locked up at night.

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