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The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette [3] and originally known as Tomanowos by the Clackamas Chinook [4] [5] Native American tribe, is an iron-nickel meteorite found in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the largest meteorite found in the United States and the sixth largest in the world.
The Willamette Meteorite is culturally significant to Clackamas people. The meteorite is called Tomanowos, which translates to "the visitor of heaven". The meteorite was believed to be given from the Sky People and is the unity between sky, earth, and water. Other tribes around the area thought that the meteorite possessed magical powers. [3]
This meteorite was taken from Oregon years ago and has been displayed at American Museum of Natural History as a natural curiosity. The Clackamas people, one of the Grand Ronde tribes, perceive this 15-ton meteorite as a sacred Sky Person who fell to earth thousands of years ago and helped create their people and their world. Efforts since the ...
The Willamette Valley (/ w ɪ ˈ l æ m ɪ t / ⓘ wil-AM-it) is a 150-mile (240 km) long valley in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Willamette River flows the entire length of the valley and is surrounded by mountains on three sides: the Cascade Range to the east, the Oregon Coast Range to the west, and the ...
Clackamas County (/ ˈ k l æ k ə m ə s / CLAK-ə-məss) is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census , the population was 421,401, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. [ 1 ]
Willamette (/ w ɪ ˈ l æ m ɪ t / wil-AM-it), from the Clackamas language of the Columbia River, Oregon, can refer to: A toponym of the U.S. state of Oregon: Willamette River, a tributary of the Columbia River in northwestern Oregon; Willamette Valley, a region in northwest Oregon that surrounds the Willamette River Willamette Valley AVA ...
Iron meteorites themselves were sometimes used unaltered as collectibles or even religious symbols (e.g. Clackamas worshiping the Willamette meteorite). [15] Today iron meteorites are prized collectibles for academic institutions and individuals. Some are also tourist attractions as in the case of the Hoba meteorite.
Brown and Black Asteroid is an outdoor sculpture and replica of the Willamette Meteorite by an unknown artist, [1] [2] installed outside the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States.