Meteorite · Iron · United States
Willamette
The largest meteorite ever found in the United States, an ~15-tonne iron sacred to the Clackamas people of the Willamette Valley.
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Imagery
Portland, Oregon, at the junction of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers
iss072e009893 (Oct. 1, 2024) --- Portland, Oregon, a city with a population of about 652,000 at the junction of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 mile…
2024
NASA/Johnson · NASA media (public domain)
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