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Indiana farmer sees meteorite fall. Now added to Smithsonian Collection. Washington D.C. Oct 26--the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum recently was presented with the meteorite here being used as a vanity mirror by Mrs. James M. Underhill, a visitor from Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs. Underhill is framed in the picture by a meteorite which had the center burned out while it was falling to earth. The polished iron meteorite which she holds was seen falling 55 years ago by a farmer in Indiana, seeing the flash and the explosion of the falling meteor, the farmer examined his field the next day and found the chunk of iron, nickel, phosphorus and a dab of sulphur at the bottom of a small hole. He took it to the state geologist of Indiana, and it was recently presented to the Smithsonian
- Digital ID: (digital file from original negative) hec 27531 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.27531
- Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-27531 (digital file from original negative)
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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