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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Subject: Re: polar meteorites
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- -From: jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
- -Subject: polar meteorites
- -Date: 12 Jan 93 15:19:35 GMT
- -Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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- -Re. finding meteorites...
-
- -Seems to me I remember a childhood reference which stated that Peary found
- -a rather large meteorite (multiton) that had been mined by the local residents
- -for some time (decades/centuries/millenia???). In any case, I think he took it
- -back to the US. The picture still in my mind (or maybe imagination) is of
- -a rocky barrens. In such a place, the same logic as Antarctica would
- -apply, I suppose.
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- -John Garland
-
- I don't know if it's related, but in the Smithsonian's Natural History
- Museum there's a huge (non-meteoric) copper boulder, which was formerly
- revered as a manitou, and which was transported to DC with great difficulty.
- I think it came from northwestern North America, but I'm not sure.
-
- John Roberts
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