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		Meteorites have traditionally been divided into three broad categories: stony meteorites are rocks, mainly composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites are largely composed of metallic iron-nickel; and, stony-iron meteorites contain large amounts of both metallic and rocky material.
		Most meteorite falls are recovered on the basis of eye-witness accounts of the fireball or the actual impact of the object on the ground, or both.
		Apart from meteorites fallen onto the Earth, "Heat Shield Rock" is a meteorite which was found on Mars, and two tiny fragments of asteroids were found among the samples collected on the Moon by Apollo 12 (1969) and Apollo 15 (1971) astronauts [4].
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Meteorite (4001 words)

	Meteorites K-12 Experiments for Lesson Plans & Science Fair Projects
		A small number of meteorites belong to additional groups or subgroups with unique chemical characteristics relative to other members of the larger groups, such as lunar meteorites or Martian meteorites.
		One theory stipulates that a large meteorite impact caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
		The meteorites that struck this area were identified in the 1980s as Martian in origin.
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/astronomy/meteorite.html (994 words)

	Meteorite - New World Encyclopedia Preview
		Meteorites are so far the most important materials for studying planetary science.
		Another theory is that the island of Manhattan, part of New York City, was formed by a huge meteorite that fell prior to the supercontinent Pangea splitting apart to eventually form the present age's continents.
		The meteorites that struck this area were identified in the 1980s as Martian in origin.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /preview/Meteorite (902 words)

	Meteorite - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		A small number of meteorites belong to additional groups or subgroups with unique chemical characteristics relative to other members of the larger groups, such as lunar meteorites or Martian meteorites.
		One theory stipulates that a large meteorite impact caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
		It is also theorized that meteorites caused other mass extinction events as well throughout the history of the earth.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/m/e/t/Meteorite.html (717 words)

	Willamette Meteorite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The meteorite was discovered by European immigrants in 1902, in the Willamette Valley of Oregon at 45°22′N 122°35′W, by the modern city of West Linn.
		In 1905, the meteorite was purchased by Mrs.
		A replica of the meteorite is in Eugene, Oregon, outside the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History on the University of Oregon campus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willamette_Meteorite (505 words)

	meteorite. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Some meteorites might be fragments of comets; others, small asteroids whose orbital paths crossed that of the earth.
		The aerolites, or stony meteorites, show a diversity of mineral elements including large percentages of silicon and magnesium oxides; the most abundant type of aerolite is the chondrite, so called because the metal embedded in it is in the form of grainlike lumps, or chondrules.
		This sudden impact causes great compression, heating, and partial vaporization of the outer part of the meteorite and of the materials in the ground; expansion of the gases thus formed and of steam produced from groundwater causes an explosion that shatters the meteorite and carves out a crater in the ground.
	www.bartleby.com /65/me/meteorit.html (686 words)

	Planets Zone, Rose Center for Earth and Space \| American Museum of Natural History
		The Willamette Meteorite is a rare and important scientific specimen that is preserved as part of the collections of the Museum's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
		It was found in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and acquired by the Museum in 1906.
		In structure it is a metallic iron meteorite, weighing over 15.5 tons, the largest meteorite ever found in the United States, and the sixth largest meteorite in the world.
	www.amnh.org /rose/meteorite.html (400 words)

	NewsRegister.com
		The Willamette Meteorite is thought to be a fragment of a planet that fell to Earth in Canada thousands of years ago.
		The 15 1/2-ton, 10-foot-long meteorite is thought to be a fragment of a planet that rocketed to Earth in Canada many thousands of years ago.
		The rock was renamed the Willamette Meteorite after its "discovery" by a white entrepreneur in 1902.
	www.newsregister.com /news/story_print.cfm?story_no=206735 (529 words)

	Willamette Meteorite, Rose Center for Earth and Space \| American Museum of Natural History
		However, the agreement also stipulates the Meteorite would be conveyed to the Tribe if the Museum failed to publicly display it, except for temporary periods for preservation, safety, construction and reasons beyond the reasonable control of the Museum.
		The largest meteorite ever found in the United States, the Willamette is believed by scientists to be the iron core of a planet that was shattered in a stellar collision billions of years ago.
		The Willamette Meteorite is the centerpiece of the Cullman Hall of the Universe in the Museum's recently opened Rose Center of Earth and Space.
	www.amnh.org /rose/meteorite_agreement.html (1198 words)

	Iron Meteorites
		The WIllamette Meteorite was sold to William Dodge and was then donated to the American Museum of Natural History in 1906 where it remains to this day.
		This is present in nearly all iron meteorites to a degree and is a criss cross crystallibne patternation created as the iron cooled slowly as it travelled for millions of years across space.
		This is a coarse octahedrite iron meteorite and is a tiny remnant of the parent body.
	www.jurassicjewellery.co.uk /contents/en-uk/d18.html (3929 words)

	Meteorite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meteorites have traditionally been divided into three broad categories: stony meteorites are rocks, mainly composed of silicate minerals; iron meteorites are largely composed of metallic iron-nickel; and, stony-iron meteorites contain large amounts of both metallic and rocky material.
		Most meteorite falls are recovered on the basis of eye-witness accounts of the fireball or the actual impact of the object on the ground, or both.
		Apart from meteorites fallen onto the Earth, "Heat Shield Rock" is a meteorite which was found on Mars, and two tiny fragments of asteroids were found among the samples collected on the Moon by Apollo 12 (1969) and Apollo 15 (1971) astronauts [4].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meteorite (3848 words)

	Canku Ota - February 26, 2000 - Meteroite Dispute
		The Willamette Meteorite, a mass of metal and rock the size of a small car, is thought to have plunged down in flames somewhere in the Pacific Northwest 10 millennia ago, a gnarled monster from space.
		A century ago, the tribe was confined to a reservation away from the meteorite and its use as a sacred object declined.
		The meteorite was so large and heavy that it had to be installed first, in effect, and the planetarium built around it.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co02262000/CO_02262000_Meteorite.htm (1210 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Willamette Meteorite
		The Willamette Meteorite was discovered in the U.S. state of Oregon, and is the largest meteorite ever found in the United States, and the sixth largest in the world.
		The meteorite weighs over 14,000 kg (about 32,000 pounds/15.5 tons) and is a type III meteorite.
		The meteorite was discovered by European immigrants in 1902, in the Willamette Valley of Oregon at, by the modern city of West Linn.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Willamette_Meteorite (517 words)

	The Willamette Meteorite
		Unique among these is the Willamette Meteorite which had traveled from Idaho's Pend d'Oreille region to a spot near the Falls of the Willamette River.
		The Willamette Meteorite is definitely unEarthly in appearance.
		A few hints about the spiritual significance of the Willamette Meteorite to its original owners, the Clackamas people, came out in testimony during the court battle over ownership.
	www.usgennet.org /alhnorus/ahorclak/WillametteMeteorite.html (948 words)

	WILLAMETTE PHOTO
		Willamette is a heavily weathered meteorite, possibly losing a fourth of its original weight through tens of thousands of years of terrestrial corrosion in the rainy Oregon valley.
		Consequently, the cavities and pedestals are mostly aligned perpendicular to the rear side of the meteorite and the ground.
		The lawsuit was eventually settled out-of-court, with an agreement recognizing the Tribes spiritual relationship with the meteorite, and ensuring annual access to the meteorite by the Grand Ronde for religious, historical, and cultural purposes.
	www.meteoritestudies.com /protected_WILLAMET.HTM (964 words)

	Macovich Collection Meteorite Auction at Bonham's, April 11, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the desire to reveal the internal structure of the 15.5 ton Willamette meteorite, the crown jewel of The American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center, it was decided in 1997 to cut a 13-kilogram end piece from the mass.
		Willamette is the largest meteorite ever found in North America; as it was found on the Earth’s surface, scientists believe that it landed in Canada and was deposited in Oregon by a glacier during the last ice age.
		The Willamette meteorite was the centerpiece of the Hayden Planetarium when it first opened, and an estimated 50 million people have seen or touched this meteorite during its nearly 100 years on exhibition.
	www.macovich.com /catalog/2131.html (441 words)

	Meteorites Get High Prices at Art Sale - Space - RedOrbit
		The pristine meteorite, known as "Valley of the Sky," was purchased Tuesday by a private collector in the United States who bid by phone and plans to display it as a work of art, said Thomas Lindgren, acting director of the natural history division for Bonhams auction house.
		The meteorites came from the Macovich Collection, considered the finest collection of aesthetic meteorites in the world.
		The Willamette is North America's largest meteorite, deposited by the last ice age and discovered in Oregon in 1902.
	www.redorbit.com /news/space/467959/meteorites_get_high_prices_at_art_sale/index.html (417 words)

	Restitution of cultural property in the USA « Elginism
		Willamette might seem an odd location for such a conference, but it has a number of faculty recognized in this subject, in particular James Nafziger, who specializes in international law and is in the College of Law.
		Willamette is hiring a new collections curator, artist/ teacher Jonathan Bucci, currently an assistant director and collections curator of the Watkins Gallery at American University in Washington, D.C. He starts Oct. 2.
		The sliver of the 15.5-ton meteorite, which the tribes unsuccessfully have sought to have returned from the Museum of Natural History in New York, was turned over in a ceremony on April 17 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.
	www.elginism.com /20060815/509 (1642 words)

	Meteorite travels from Oregon to New York
		The Willamette Meteorite is one of the largest meteorites in the world and the largest ever found in the United States.
		However, after the treaty of 1855 most of the natives of the Willamette Valley were moved from their traditional lands to the current reservation in the coastal mountains of western Oregon.
		The agreement leaves the Willamette Meteorite in place at the museum and allows the tribe access to it for cultural and religious purposes, allowing the people to reestablish their ties to it.
	www.salmonriver.com /lightscience/willamettemeteorite.html (1039 words)

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		Although the Iron and Steel firm offered to buy the meteorite from him, Ellis rejected the bid, and was consequently involved in a long and bitter lawsuit, in which he lost the meteorite and received nothing for his efforts.
		However, a large amount of meteorite oxide, which had flaked off the crust, was found in the hole where the meteorite once laid.
		This material is guaranteed as follows: (1) This is known as meteorite oxide or "iron-shale" and is referred to as such in the Catalogue of Meteorites, 5th ed.
	home.earthlink.net /~capricorn89/willamette.htm (512 words)

	Willamette Meteorite
		Since it was assumed that the meteorite landed on the property of the Oregon Iron and Steel Company, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled the company had the rights to the meteorite.
		Because there was no crater indicated, experts later suggested that the meteorite could have been moved to the area by a large flood, possibly washed down from Washington or Montana.
		Finally, the largest meteorite found in the United States was sold and donated to the Museum of Natural History in New York City where it is still on display.
	natural-history.uoregon.edu /Pages/web/meteorite.htm (256 words)

	Hayden Postcards
		The meteorite was brought to the USA by Admiral Peary in 1897 where it was stored in a warehouse before finally making its way to the museum on Oct. 1, 1904.
		The meteorite weighs 31 MT (34 US ton) and is the third largest in the world.
		The Willamette was purchased for the museum in 1906.
	www.jensenmeteorites.com /Postcards/AmericanMNHNY.htm (460 words)

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		The fate of a meteorite entering a planetary atmosphere depends largely upon its initial size and speed.
		Meteorites of intermediate sizes, a few meters to tens of meters...
		Buffeted by kilobars of aerodynamic pressure, they break up in the atmosphere (as did the famous Peekskill meteorite that disintegrated over the eastern United States on October 9, 1992) and may eventually fall to the ground in a shower of small fragments.
	www.lycos.com /info/planets--earths.html?page=2 (577 words)

	Meteorite.fr - Basics - Meteorites in History
		The spectacular fall of a meteorite, accompanied by light and sound phenomena, such as falling stars, smoke, thunder, and sonic booms, has always kindled the human imagination, evoking fear and awe in everyone who witnesses such an event.
		The Winona meteorite was found in a stone cist in the prehistoric Elden pueblo, Arizona, in 1928.
		In the Hebrew language, meteorites were called "betyls", an equivalent to the Greek "baitylia", meaning "the residence of God".
	www.meteorite.fr /en/basics/history.htm (1337 words)

	The Montréal Planetarium — What's Up — Meteorites, Messengers from Space
		When the Willamette meteorite was discovered, it was only partially embedded in the loose soil.
		The meteorite was exhibited at the 1905 world's fair in Portland (the "Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair").
		The Willamette meteorite on exhibit at the Hayden Planetarium.
	www.planetarium.montreal.qc.ca /Information/Expo_Meteorites/Vedettes/willamette_a.html (749 words)

	Meteorite News - News Stories on Meteorites
		This meteorite, according to Tonko, may have also been one in a series of meteorites that strafed across North America at the 38th parallel, pummeling it like a machine gun and possibly causing one of five planetary extinctions much earlier than the one associated with the end of the dinosaurs.
		Asteroids and meteorites are supposed to be made of the same stuff – at least that's what earth science teachers have been telling their students for decades.
		The nearly 700 gram (24.7 ounce) meteorite landed on the roof of a warehouse belonging to wholesale group Norgesgruppen in Moss, a town 65 kilometers south of the capital in the Oslo fjord.
	www.meteorite.com /news/index.htm (5503 words)

	Geology Central Matrixx
		A meteorite is a relatively small extra-terrestrial body that reaches the Earth's surface.
		About 6% of meteorites are iron meteorites with intergrowths of iron- nickel alloys, such as kamacite.
		The Willamette Meteorite, the largest ever to fall on the United States
	www.theglobalmatrixx.com /oraccinfo95.html (699 words)

	Meteorites Get High Prices at Art Sale - CBS News
		The pristine meteorite, known as "Valley of the Sky," was purchased Tuesday by a private collector in the United States who bid by phone and plans to display it as a work of art, said Thomas Lindgren, acting director of the natural history division for Bonhams auction house.
		The meteorites came from the Macovich Collection, considered the finest collection of aesthetic meteorites in the world.
		The Willamette is North America's largest meteorite, deposited by the last ice age and discovered in Oregon in 1902.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/04/12/ap/tech/printableD8GUICVG4.shtml (503 words)

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