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Willamette Meteorite discovery site

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"Largest US meteorite, 6th in the world. The depression in the lawn pictured here is where the Ice Age Floods transported one of the most famous meteorites from its origin, probably over 400 miles from a larger Missoula megaflood pulse near north Montana, having landed probably just across the Canadian border." (see reference)

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Willamette Meteorite

The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette and originally known as Tomanowos by the Clackamas Chinook[4][5] Native American tribe is an iron-nickel meteorite found in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the largest meteorite found in North America and the sixth largest in the world.[6][7] There was no impact crater at the discovery site; researchers believe the meteorite landed in what is now Canada or Montana, and was transported as a glacial erratic to the Willamette Valley during the Missoula Floods at the end of the last Ice Age (~13,000 years ago).[8] It has long been held sacred by indigenous peoples of the Willamette Valley, including the federally recognized Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (CTGRC).

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