Description: The Grootfontein meteorite. Just laying out in the open. Why not, it is just way too heavy for anyone to haul it off. You could see where people had been trying to break off pieces of it. I think the weight of broken hammers and chisels by far outweighed any pieces of the thing that people had managed to carry off. I would not want to be any where within 50 miles of the thing when it hit the ground.

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