Show meteorite of great age meteorites of indicated great age are conspicuous by their absence from museum collections and it Is suggested that such specimens may disintegrate and disappear from the rocks within a relatively short time alter after fulling falling the british museum however has lately acquired a slice of somewhat 1 less ss than a pound front from a meteoric iron that Is believed to represent an ancient fall the slice Is from one of two similar masses that we were found in january 1905 1005 within a few miles of dawson klondike and that from their position deep in the oldest gravels of the district are thought tho thon ight glit to hare rested there since the pliocene age or before from ills his study of the original epee himens in the museum of the geological survey at ottawa it A A johnson has concluded that they are part of a single meteoric shower of tertiary time nevark acri ark news |