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Apparently a large meteorite burst high in the atmosphere and fragments landed in the Gibeon desert in Namibia, Africa. The Gibeon meteorite fragments are spread over a strewn field 70 miles (120 km) wide by 230 miles (390km) long--one of the largest strewn fields in the world.
The Widmanstatten crystalized pattern of the nickel-iron provides undisputed proof among those who study meteorites that the material is not of earth origin. Each of these meteorite slices and spheres has been polished from a Gibeon Meteorite fragment.
