Ahnighito Meteorite

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The Ahnighito Meteorite

The largest fragment of the great Cape York meteorite to be removed from the site where it fell in Greenland some ten thousand years ago. It and the other large fragments of the Cape York meteorite were used by the local Inuit people for thousands of years as a source for nickel-iron for their tools and harpoons. The Arctic explorer Robert Peary brought this portion of the meteorite from Greenland to the United States in the late 1800's, selling it to the American Museum of Natural History for USD $40,000.

In HW, Kit communes with the meteorite and gets a sense of what its long history was like before its fall. (HW)

(See also: Inanimate objects)