A SEVEN TON METEORITE
A ship sailed into port at Aberdeen, Scotland, recently, bearing a strange load-—a seven-iton rock, said to be worth half a million dollars. It was a gigantic meteorite on its way to a museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Knucl Rasmussen, an explorer of the Far North, discovered the huge meteorite in 191 Sin an out-of-the-way place in Greenland, sixteen miles inland. Getting it out and sending it to Denmark was too difficult a task at that time. It took the united efforts of 170 dogs to drag it, as its great weight constantly broke through the ice. This meteorite is said to be the third largest in the world. Th e two bigger ones are in America and England.
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Shannon News, 25 June 1926, Page 4
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123A SEVEN TON METEORITE Shannon News, 25 June 1926, Page 4
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