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Meteorite Materials - The Ahnighito Meteorite

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Resume of Points of Special Interest. -0- First and foremost stands the ethnological or human associations of these aerolites. They have assisted in the progress of an entire aboriginal tribe, and that tribe not only the most northerly one upon the earth, but probably the smallest as well, and to me the most interesting. Second, is their size. With the exception of the large Cranbourne sidefite in the British Museum, weighing some 8000 lbs., the larger of these two aerolites (the "woman") far exceeds the largest in any of the other great museums of the world. The gems of the National Museum, the Paris Museum, the Yale College Museum, and the Field Colum- bian Museum, weigh respectively 2500 lbs. (estimated); 1709; 1630, and 1013 lbs. ; while the largest in the Museums of Vienna and the University of Bonn ,are still smaller. Third in order comes the fact, that they are literally and absolutely complete specimens, no individual or museum possessing the least fragment of either. In this respect they are unapproachable. The seizure and utilization of their exceptional fitness for the central idea of a dramatic yet scientifically

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