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It is believed to have landed in Canada, and thousands of years ago glaciers pushed it to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
Its pits were caused not by a flaming descent through the atmosphere, but by centuries of rusting in the wet forest of Oregon.
It was discovered in the Willamette Valley of Oregon at 45°22'N , 122°35'W, by the modern city of West Linn, Oregon. It weighs over 14,000 kg (about 32,000 pounds) and is the rough size of a Volkswagon Beetle. Parts have been sliced off.
The meteorite has been subject to some controversyA controversy is a contentious dispute, a disagreement over which parties are actively arguing. Controversies can range from private disputes between two individuals to large-scale social upheavals. It is the nature of controversies that they cannot be co.
When some European settlers discovered it, it was on land owned by the Oregon Iron and Steel Company. The settlers ghosted it off, and a messy lawsuit ensued (usgennet.org reference, below).
It was later donated to the American Museum of Natural HistoryThe American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark of Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York, at 79th Street and Central Park West. The museum has a staff of more than 1,200. The museum sponsors over 100 special f in New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York, in 1906Events January 8 Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 January 31 Earthquake in Ecuador (8. 6 in Richter scale) February 11 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos''. February 15 Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in t. With time there grew greater sensitivity to the natives to whom it originally belonged. The museum was built around the meteorite, but to remove it would damage the museum. There is now an agreement between the tribe and the museum, and once a year tribal members may conduct a private ceremony. It remains in New York.