The Strangest Rock Ever Found

[CMD]

Interestingly, many Native Americans seem to have recognized the other worldly origins of meteorites, or collected them, or even venerated them. The Hopewell culture collected pieces of the beautiful Brenham, Ks. pallasite meteorite, with its peridot crystals embedded in a nickel-iron matrix. Large specimens of probable Canyon Diablo, or Meteor Crater, Az. origin have been found wrapped in cloth in Ancestral Puebloan burial cists. And the largest meteorite ever found in the US was venerated by Oregon tribes and given a name that translates as "visitor from the moon". The Willamette, Oregon iron meteorite:

http://offbeatoregon.com/H1001c_WillamMeteor.htm

[Jethro355]

There appears to be some form of life on the one side of that moon rock!!

[Tam]

Now that is a cool post. You can only wonder what they thought .