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The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette[3] and originally known as Tomanowos by the Clackamas Chinook [4][5] Native American tribe, is an iron-nickel meteorite found in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is the largest meteorite found in the United States and the sixth largest in the world. [6][7] There was no impact crater at the ...
The Willamette Meteorite is culturally significant to Clackamas people. The meteorite is called Tomanowos, which translates to "the visitor of heaven". The meteorite was believed to be given from the Sky People and is the unity between sky, earth, and water. Other tribes around the area thought that the meteorite possessed magical powers. [3]
The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (CTGR) is a federally recognized tribe of Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau.They consist of at least 27 Native American tribes with long historical ties to present-day western Oregon between the western boundary of the Oregon Coast and the eastern boundary of the Cascade Range, and the northern boundary of southwestern ...
The Willamette Valley contains most of Oregon's population; it extends from the Portland metro area in the north to Eugene in the south. The Willamette Valley (/ wɪˈlæmɪt / ⓘ wil-AM-it) is a 150-mile (240 km) long valley in Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The Willamette River flows the entire length of the ...
44°02′34″N 123°04′06″W / 44.04291°N 123.06840°W / 44.04291; -123.06840. Owner. University of Oregon. Brown and Black Asteroid is an outdoor sculpture and replica of the Willamette Meteorite by an unknown artist, [1][2] installed outside the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Eugene, Oregon, in ...
The Willamette Valley’s largest cities posted their hottest July on record in 2024, according to data from the National Weather Service in Portland.. Salem’s average temperature was 74.4, a ...
The Oregon Iron Company was an iron smelting company located in what is now Lake Oswego, Oregon. The company was established in 1865, and in 1867, became the first company west of the Rocky Mountains in the United States to smelt iron. The company failed after a few years, but was reorganized as the Oswego Iron Company in 1878, and again as the ...
The Willamette Valley is on the verge of a historic stretch of heat, but a slight cooldown is just around the corner. Both Salem and Eugene have posted record-breaking, triple-digit heat the past ...