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  • Brazil's Biggest Meteorite Survives Museum-Destroying Fire

    09/04/2018 12:43:11 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 9 replies
    Space.com ^ | September 4, 2018 12:42pm ET | Hanneke Weitering,
    After a catastrophic fire blazed through the National Museum of Brazil on Sunday (Sept. 2), destroying many of the institution's 20 million artifacts, the museum's meteorites were some of the few relics left standing. Among the space rocks that survived the blaze is the Bendegó meteorite, which is the largest meteorite ever found on Brazilian soil. The iron-nickel meteorite is one of about a dozen meteorites housed at the museum. … Officials have not yet been able to tally the damages, as investigators have been instructed to hold off on their work until engineers declare the building safe to enter,...