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    The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette and originally known as Tomanowos by the Clackamas Chinook Native American tribe, is an iron-nickel...
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  • City annually in July to see Tomanowos, also known as the Willamette Meteorite. This meteorite was taken from Oregon years ago and has been displayed at...
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  • western Oregon Willamette Falls, a natural waterfall on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn Willamette Meteorite, a meteorite that was discovered...
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    even religious symbols (e.g. Clackamas worshiping the Willamette meteorite). Today iron meteorites are prized collectibles for academic institutions and...
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    terrestrial ejecta from a meteorite impact A partial slice of the Esquel pallasite Willamette Meteorite, from Oregon, US Meteorite, which fell in Wisconsin...
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  • irons and some pallasites. Willamette meteorite – the largest meteorite discovered in North America, found in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Winonaite...
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    Clackamas people (category Willamette Valley)
    to navigate the river systems. The Willamette Meteorite is culturally significant to Clackamas people. The meteorite is called Tomanowos, which translates...
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    Oregon Route 18 west of McMinnville. It is also believed that the Willamette Meteorite was rafted by flood and ice to the location near West Linn where...
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  • Darryl Pitt (category Meteorites)
    the Willamette meteorite, among the world's most famous, Pitt was credited as a co-author in its reclassification. Pitt is the Chair of the Meteorite Division...
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    Brown and Black Asteroid is an outdoor sculpture and replica of the Willamette Meteorite by an unknown artist, installed outside the University of Oregon...
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    located in West Linn. West Linn is located in the area where the Willamette Meteorite was placed by the Missoula Floods. Extremes range from −2 °F (−19 °C)...
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  • El-Halwagym, Mahmud; et al. (2016). "The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun's iron dagger blade". Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 51 (7): 1301. Bibcode:2016M&PS...
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    Smithsonian. Willamette – The largest meteorite ever found in the United States. 2007 Carancas impact event – On 15 September 2007, a stony meteorite that may...
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    Meteorite weathering is the terrestrial alteration of a meteorite. Most meteorites date from the oldest times in the Solar System and are by far the oldest...
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    prehistoric iron artifacts, from the 4th millennium BC in Egypt, were made from meteoritic iron-nickel. It is not known when or where the smelting of iron from ores...
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    Iridium (category Meteorite minerals)
    catalysis. Iridium is a component of some OLEDs. Iridium is found in meteorites in much higher abundance than in the Earth's crust. For this reason, the...
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    Puget Sound region Grannie stone Jasper conglomerate Sunday Rock Willamette Meteorite Bard, Edouard (June 2004). "Effet de serre et glaciations, une perspective...
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    Wilthoit Springs was a popular tourist destination. In 1902, the Willamette Meteorite was recovered from a field near present-day West Linn. According...
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  • meteorites on Earth. Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite...
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    million specimens of plants, animals, fungi, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, as well as specialized collections...
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    Native plant garden, a geological time line, and a replica of the Willamette Meteorite. The museum's new website also includes over 20 web galleries featuring...
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  • December 6, 2012 (2012-12-06) 41 9 "Cleveland Tumor; Lions of Tsavo; Willamette Meteorite" December 13, 2012 (2012-12-13) 42 8 "Sheppton Mine Disaster; Bite...
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    operate a pipe foundry on the site of the new furnace until 1928. The Willamette Meteorite was discovered on Oregon Iron & Steel property. An attempt was made...
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    was an American geologist specialising in volcanoes, earthquakes and meteorites. He made his greatest impact as curator of geology at the American Museum...
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    Allan Hills A81005 (category Meteorites by name)
    first lunar meteorite found on Earth. It was found in 1982 in the Allan Hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains, during a meteorite gathering expedition...
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  • Minnesota Ashcreek, Portland, Oregon, a city neighborhood Ash Creek (meteorite), Meteorite fall in Texas, USA This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • signatures of meteorites and Moon rocks. He leads meteorite recovery missions to the Atacama desert in Chile, and is the head of the Meteoritical Society nomenclature...
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    County, Illinois. This was formerly speculated to be the result of a meteorite impact, but some argue it was caused by igneous activity. In northwestern...
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    magazine listed it as "really weird" along with beers including pickle, meteorite dust, and scorpion. The Massachusetts Daily Collegian reviewed it at length...
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    opened. The bridge is the highest suspension bridge in Canada. The Golden meteorites fell there on October 4, 2021. Golden is nestled in the Rocky Mountain...
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