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Hoba: The World's Largest Meteorite. Hoba Meteorite - world's largest: Photograph of the Hoba Meteorite taken by Giraud Patrick on August 13, 2006. Hoba weighs about 66 tons and is nine feet long by nine feet wide by three feet thick. Image used under a GNU Free Documentation license.
The asteroid known as 2012 DA14 will narrowly miss Earth this Friday, the closest asteroid flyby on record. But the planet has not always been so lucky. Earth's craters are enduring testaments to direct asteroid hits. And though millionsâin some cases billionsâof years of erosion have made it difficult to determine the exact size of the meteorites, there is a general scientific consensus around the world's largest craters, which mark the largest asteroid impacts. Here are the ten biggest known: