[meteorite-list] "Oregon meteorite generating interest" - The Columbian

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:05:53 -0700
Message-ID: <4C99B8E1.2070306_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Reporters have got to start including photos.

Here's a more detailed article with a map.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2010/09/it_came_from_outer_space_rare_meteorite_discovered_in_oregon.html



On 9/22/2010 12:44 AM, Don Giovanni wrote:
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> http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/sep/21/ore-meteorite-generating-interest/
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> Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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> PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Paul Albertson of the southern Oregon town of Lakeview first picked up the small chunk of metal 30 years ago while rock hunting. He took it to a local rock shop and was told it was worthless nickel ore. So he tossed it into a coffee can, where it remained with some arrowheads for the next three decades.
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> Now he's learned it's actually a thumb-size meteorite that's generating interest from scientists around the world.
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> Dick Pugh of the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory at Portland State University says it's a "small, iron meteorite, and it's one of the rare types of iron."
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