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Hoba (also known as Hoba West) is a meteorite that lies on the farm "Hoba West", not far from Grootfontein, in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia.

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Latitude: 19°35S, Longitude: 17°55E

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Fifty-seven kilometres east of the B-1 road between Otavi and Grootfontein is a turn-off from where a serpentine dusty road leads to a cluster of fertile commercial farms.
From the turn-off one would have to endure a 24-km drive along a bumpy road that traverses several maize fields and fertile cattle ranches that economically sustain the maize triangle to reach one particular farm that possesses a heritage of global significance.
Hoba Farm is of global significance in that the largest single piece of cosmic dust to have fallen anywhere on earth from the sky lies several metres embedded in its surface.
This meteorite of considerable importance to scientists is a favoured tourist destination.

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