Gibeon Meteorites

A public outdoor display of meteorite fragments older than the Earth itself

In the centre of Post Street Mall stands a small public garden of giant pitted iron boulders. These are pieces of the Gibeon meteorite shower, one of the largest meteorite falls ever documented. They were originally used by Nama people for making tools and arrowheads; thirty-three of the larger fragments are now displayed here on stone plinths.

You can walk right up to them and touch their pitted, magnetic surfaces. The mall around the display is a pedestrian shopping street with cafes and craft sellers, so the meteorites slot easily into an afternoon of wandering. Free to visit, day or night.

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The Gibeon meteor shower is the largest known meteorite fall on Earth — fragments scattered across roughly 275 by 100 kilometres of southern Namibia around 30,000 years ago. The largest piece on display weighs over 500 kilograms, and was already very old when it hit our planet: tests put the iron-nickel rocks at about 4 billion years.