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Spec. A 'bottom view'
IDENTIFICATION: On July 19th, U of Minnesota Prof. Paul Weiblen, who has seen several thousand 'meteor-wrongs' as Minnesota's meteorite identification expert, confirmed that the specimen is an iron meteorite. Later, Prof Calvin Alexander compared the handwriting on the specimen against a known example and declared that this specimen is another piece of the huge Canyon Diablo meteorite which made the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona. The 6's in the accession number on the specimen match exactly the numbers on one of the University's specimens which came from the company Ward's Scientific which has been providing rock, fossil, mineral and meteorite specimens to educational institutions since 1862. Ward's was unable to confirm the information, stating "...we really have no way of telling if your sample came from Wards or not...if we sold it a long time ago, we wouldn't have any record of it anymore...sorry we couldn't be of more help."
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