Fragments
There are fragments in the collections of museums around the world including the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The biggest fragment ever found is the Holsinger Meteorite, weighing 639 kg, now on display in the Meteor Crater Visitor Center on the rim of the crater. Other famous fragments:
- 360 kg, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris
- 242.6 kg, Verkamp's Store, Arizona
- 136 kg, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
- 122 kg, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California.
- 100 kg, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
- Basket Meteorite (22 kg), Meteor Crater Museum, Arizona.
- 485 kg, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand. The largest fragment outside the United States.
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Famous quotes containing the word fragments:
“I was even more surprised at the power of the waves, exhibited on this shattered fragment, than I had been at the sight of the smaller fragments before. The largest timbers and iron braces were broken superfluously, and I saw that no material could withstand the power of the waves; that iron must go to pieces in such a case, and an iron vessel would be cracked up like an egg- shell on the rocks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
“It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men—broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)