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   ocr: Meteorite - I arrived on October 2. Hoisted onto the dock, Ahnighito remained there until 1908, when the Museum acquired it for forty thousand dollars. It was then brought by barge up the East River and hauled by fourteen teams of horses to the Museum. Visitors are allowed to touch the Cape York meteorite. When they do, they are touching an object as old as the planets and sun, and one that 1112