
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, February 4, 1991                   TAG: 9102040307
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: LAKE OSWEGO, ORE.                                LENGTH: Short

KIDS WANT MUSEUM TO RETURN METEORITE

The 16-ton Willamette Meteorite may look like a rusty rock, but to many children here the chunk of space debris is the jewel in Oregon's natural history crown and they want a New York museum to give it back.

But the American Museum of Natural History says, no way.

The iron meteorite, 10 feet long, 7 feet wide and 4 feet high, crashed to Earth sometime in the past million years. The largest meteorite ever found in the United States, it's also the fourth largest in the world.

But most importantly to fourth-graders Stephanie Corey and Annie Campbell, the brown rock pitted like Swiss cheese was discovered in 1902 in the hills near the neighboring Portland suburb of West Linn.

-Associated Press

by CNB