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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:12:21 AM EDT
Anyone here ever seen this IRL? It has quite a story from how it originally came from Canada but glaciers dragged it downwards, how the indians already knew it for thousands of years and the white guy who "officially" discovered it dragged it all the way to his property but got caught stealing it, eventually being a case in the Oregon Supreme Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willamette_Meteorite 
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:20:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:23:31 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:28:19 AM EDT
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Very cool. That thing today would be worth a small fortune today.
One day I'm going to take a week and head out west to do some meteorite hunting. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:28:51 AM EDT
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Meteor Shit!
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:32:34 AM EDT
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Wonder how big the explosions was when it entered the atmosphere
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:34:20 AM EDT
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That would make some sweet 1911s.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:34:52 AM EDT
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You all can't pronounce Willamette
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:35:22 AM EDT
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Probably flew over Spain on it's way in. Just sayin'.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:35:32 AM EDT
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I've wanted to find a meteorite ever since I was a kid.
Still hasn't happened 
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:36:30 AM EDT
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You all can't pronounce Willamette |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:38:29 AM EDT
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I've wanted to find a meteorite ever since I was a kid. Still hasn't happened |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:40:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hard to find in NY given our weather. I found one once when I was a kid walking around frozen Oneida lake (I think). I was like "how'd this rock get way out here?" and disregarded it. A few years later it dawned on me that it was probably a space rock. From then on I've been into them. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:56:39 AM EDT
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Patiently waiting on its much larger sibling to hit Portland.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 10:58:27 AM EDT
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You all can't pronounce Willamette 
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:02:42 AM EDT
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Patiently waiting on its much larger sibling to hit Portland. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:03:34 AM EDT
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I've lived in Oregon my entire life. Everybody pronounces it will-ammit. Not Willa-mette or some horseshit.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:04:26 AM EDT
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You all can't pronounce Willamette |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:05:06 AM EDT
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Very cool. That thing today would be worth a small fortune today. One day I'm going to take a week and head out west to do some meteorite hunting. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:08:32 AM EDT
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How exactly do you do that? Wouldn't it just look like rocks? |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:08:51 AM EDT
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How do you guys say Umpqua?
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:11:31 AM EDT
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You just never know what you will learn when you click on a thread in GD.
Thanks for posting OP. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:17:26 AM EDT
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I like the idea that humans have known about meteorite's unique properties for millennium.
IE: King Tut's dagger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun's_meteoric_iron_dagger |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:18:28 AM EDT
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How exactly do you do that? Wouldn't it just look like rocks? |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:18:36 AM EDT
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How do you guys say Umpqua?
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:19:07 AM EDT
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Probably flew over Spain on it's way in. Just sayin'. 
Sublime! I was like and then like  when I got it.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:21:36 AM EDT
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You all can't pronounce Willamette (how's that for obscure?)  Substitute Teacher - Key & Peele |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:25:53 AM EDT
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I remember reading about that. Must have been a bitch to move.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:30:22 AM EDT
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How exactly do you do that? Wouldn't it just look like rocks? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Very cool. That thing today would be worth a small fortune today. One day I'm going to take a week and head out west to do some meteorite hunting. Disclaimer...I'm not a pro. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:35:10 AM EDT
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Very cool. That thing today would be worth a small fortune today. One day I'm going to take a week and head out west to do some meteorite hunting. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:36:52 AM EDT
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Sublime! I was like and then like when I got it.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:38:26 AM EDT
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That thing would be worth a large fortune today, a very large one. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Very cool. That thing today would be worth a small fortune today. One day I'm going to take a week and head out west to do some meteorite hunting. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:39:48 AM EDT
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Damn, that looks just like this big rock in my back yard.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:42:37 AM EDT
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I'd love to find one, I think the forests obscure impact craters around here though.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:46:13 AM EDT
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They have a small monument shaped like it in West Linn.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:47:52 AM EDT
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Man spends 90 days trying to steal and move a meteorite that weighs 32,000 lbs 3/4's of mile but is discovered.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:48:42 AM EDT
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Awsome story, thx OP.
That's some scary shit right there.
The meteorite presumably landed on an ice cap in what is now Montana or western Canada, and was dragged by the glacier ice to the vicinity of an ice barrier that formed across the Clark Fork River. This barrier had ponded a huge amount of water at the Lake Missoula right at the time when the meteorite reached the area and the ice barrier became unstable and breached. The resulting flood involved up to 10 million cubic meters per second of water discharge, with large blocks of ice rafting down the Columbia River and the Willamette Valley at the end of the last Ice Age (~13,000 years ago). |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 11:49:39 AM EDT
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You just never know what you will learn when you click on a thread in GD. Thanks for posting OP. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 12:12:53 PM EDT
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Damn, that looks just like this big rock in my back yard. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 12:21:58 PM EDT
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I used to walk by the replica/monument in West Linn all the time.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 12:30:25 PM EDT
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Why? It's just nickel iron. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Very cool. That thing today would be worth a small fortune today. One day I'm going to take a week and head out west to do some meteorite hunting. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 12:44:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/3/2019 12:54:38 PM EDT
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I like the idea that humans have known about meteorite's unique properties for millennium. IE: King Tut's dagger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun's_meteoric_iron_dagger |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 12:58:40 PM EDT
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Pew-all-up
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Posted: 7/3/2019 1:01:38 PM EDT
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That is what I was thinking, nothing special other than it came from space. I want to find the one made up of gold or platinum, that would be a life changer. 
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Posted: 7/3/2019 1:02:36 PM EDT
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How do you guys say Umpqua? Simple, it's how we know you're not from around here. Dosewallips, Tillamook, Yachats, you can't say that shit in a Jersey accent and think we don't fucking know. |
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Posted: 7/3/2019 1:04:50 PM EDT
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They overdid it when taking samples, there's hardly any of it left!
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Posted: 7/3/2019 1:11:28 PM EDT
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$$$$$$$$
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Posted: 7/3/2019 6:52:20 PM EDT
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And Siuslaw Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How do you guys say Umpqua? 
Ooh, ooh! I know! Pick me!
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Posted: 7/3/2019 6:55:55 PM EDT
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I have been to The American Museum of Natural History. I remember looking forward to looking at that meteorite. It was huge.
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Posted: 7/3/2019 7:25:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That is what I was thinking, nothing special other than it came from space. I want to find the one made up of gold or platinum, that would be a life changer. |
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