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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.
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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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.
His images appear in dozens of albums and books. [4] [5] ... As a result of the anomaly he noticed in the Willamette meteorite, among the world's most famous, Pitt ...
Pages in category "Glacial erratics of Oregon" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Willamette Meteorite This page was last ...
Letter from John Evans discussing a "meteor" discovered on Bald Mountain in Oregon, dated November 25, 1859. The Port Orford meteorite hoax concerns a 19th-century claimed meteorite discovery near Port Orford, Oregon in 1856. The meteorite has attracted the interest of meteorite hunters, [2] with a value reported as high as $300 million. [4]
Willamette Falls, a natural waterfall on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn; Willamette Meteorite, a meteorite that was discovered in Oregon; Willamette Pass Resort, a ski area in the Cascade Range of Oregon; Willamette Stone, survey marker in Oregon; Willamette Cattle Company, a company formed in Oregon in 1837 to buy ...