Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Willamette. / 45.367°N 122.583°W / 45.367; -122.583. 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 ...
The Willamette Meteorite on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Since 2000, members of the tribe travel to New York 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 American Museum of Natural History as a ...
natural-history .uoregon .edu. The University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History is a natural history museum on the University of Oregon campus, in Eugene, Oregon, United States of America. The museum headquarters and public spaces are located at 1680 East 15th Avenue in a building inspired by the design of Pacific Northwest ...
The Willamette Meteorite on display at the American Museum of Natural History. It weighs about 14,500 kilograms (32,000 pounds). It weighs about 14,500 kilograms (32,000 pounds). This is the largest meteorite ever found in the United States.
Meteorite name Found year Region/Country Coordinates Group Classification Mass Image 1: Hoba: 1920: Grootfontein, Namibia: Ataxite: IVB: 60,000 kg (130,000 lb) 2: Cape York (Ahnighito) 1894: Meteorite Island, Greenland
Brown and Black Asteroid. / 44.04291; -123.06840. 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.
University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Add languages ...
Lane died exactly three years later — June 14, 1905 — in his home at 212 W. Market St. about where the Courtesy Inn stands today. Two weeks shy of his 90th birthday, Lane was buried beneath ...