BONHAMSThis 30-pound piece of the Willamette Meteorite is one of 54 lots of meteorite material and associated items set for auction Sunday.From The Oregonian of Friday, June 23, 2000 -- Tribe ...

An auction this weekend features a 30-pound slice of the celebrated Willamette Meteorite. The chunk, estimated to be worth up to $1.3 million, was cut off from the boulder in 1998; it represents ...

Back in 1998, the American Museum of Natural History hacked a 25-pound chunk and a smaller nub off its famed Willamette Meteorite and traded it for a mere 20-ounce piece of Mars.That's it.

Tomanowos is a 15-ton meteorite made, as most metal meteorites are, of iron with about 8% nickel mixed in. These iron and nickel atoms were formed at the core of large stars that ended their lives ...

But bit by bit tiny pieces of the 15-ton Willamette Meteorite, discovered by a Welsh miner in 1902 on a West Linn hillside, are finding their way back to Oregon. McMINNVILLE, Ore.

Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction, but an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for nearly $83,000.

MCMINNVILLE, Ore. — In a touching ceremony Friday morning, the Evergreen Aviation Museum returned a small piece of the sacred meteorite 'Tomanowos' to the Grand Ronde tribe. The piece was ...

NEW YORK — The Willamette Meteorite is a sacred icon to the Oregon-based Clackamas Indians. The tribe has its own name for the massive space rock, Tomanowas, and holds an annual religious ...

If you heard about it in school, you probably know it as the Willamette Meteorite. But for the Clackamas, Tomanowos held an honored designation as a visitor, in accord with their traditions ...

The rock with arguably the most fascinating story on Earth has an ancient name: Tomanowos. It means “the visitor from heaven” in the extinct language of Oregon’s Clackamas Indian tribe.The ...