Gunnison Valley News | 1919-08-15 | Page 3 | Meteorite of Great Age

Meteorite of Great Age. Meteorites of Indicated great age nre conspicuous by their absence from iims4-7TTi collections, and It is suggest- .ii .that such specimens may disintegrate disinte-grate and disappear from the rocks within a relatively short time after fulling. The British museum, however, has lately acquired a slice of somewhat Iss than a pound from a meteoric Iron that Is believed to represent an ancient fall. The slice Is from one of Uvo similar masses that were found In January, 1905, within a few miles of Dawson, Klondike, and that, from their position deep in the oldest gravel" grav-el" of the district, are thought to have Tested there since the Pliocene age or before. F'rom bis study of the original specimens spec-imens In the museum of the geological geologi-cal survey at Ottawa, R. A. A. John-ou John-ou hiis concluded that they are part of a single meteoric shower of Ter-ttury Ter-ttury time. Newark News.