Mbozi meteorite
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The Mbozi meteorite in Tanzania is one of the world's largest meteorites. Variously estimated as the fourth largest to the eighth largest, it is located near the city of Mbeya in Tanzania's southern highlands. The meteorite is 3m long, 1m high, and weighs an estimated 25 metric tons. Nine-tenths of its composition is iron, with roughly 8% nickel and traces of other elements including phosphorus.
The Mbozi meteorite has no crater.
Mbozi has been long known to locals, who call it kimwondo, yet became known to outsiders only in the 1930s.
