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The Willamette Meteorite has been venerated by the Clackamas people since long before it was removed from its location in the Willamette Valley near the modern city of West Linn, Oregon. [citation needed] In 1902, Ellis Hughes [15] was the first European settler to recognize the meteorite's significance.
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 is a list of largest 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 fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces. The table lists the largest meteorites found on the Earth's surface.
University of Oregon 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.
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Willamette Valley cities have only reached 100 degrees five times in a row once — way back in 1941. But that could change over the coming week. Oregon heat wave: Willamette Valley could match ...
It is also believed that the Willamette Meteorite was rafted by flood and ice to the location near West Linn where it was discovered and venerated by the Clackamas people up until its discovery by settlers in 1902, prompting a lawsuit regarding its ownership that reached the Oregon Supreme Court in July of 1903. [6]
An extremely wet system of weather is forecast to bring flooding to the Willamette Valley and Coastal areas late this weekend and into next week. Flood watch issued for NW Oregon, Willamette River ...