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 ceremony ...

~ But a battered mailbox netted nearly $83K. NEW YORK -- Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling ...

A highlight of the World Meteorite Day was having the family of Ellis Hughes, the man who discovered the Willamette Meteorite in 1902, there. The grandson had seen the story in The Oregonian and ...

NEW YORK - Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the unearthly ...

A chunk of meteorite that once belonged to the American Museum of Natural History is about to go on the auction block, with an estimate of between $1.1 million and $1.3 million. The rock, a 28-pound ...

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 ceremony ...

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. A 30-pound chunk of ...

Two of the world’s most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the unearthly price of ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) -- The Grand Ronde tribes tried to get it back. The American Museum of Natural History still has it. But bit by bit tiny pieces of the 15-ton Willamette Meteorite, discovered by ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the ...