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Lance Grande, left, head of collection and research at the Field Museum in Chicago, holds a meteorite from Canyon Diablo, Ariz., and geologist Jim Holstein holds a meteorite from Spring Water, Saskatchewan. The Field Museum has become home to the world's largest collection of meteorites held outside a government agency, the result of a gift of funding and meteorites worth more than $10 million. The Field is establishing the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies.
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Lance Grande, left, head of collection and research at the Field Museum in Chicago, holds a meteorite from Canyon Diablo, Ariz., and geologist Jim Holstein holds a meteorite from Spring Water, Saskatchewan. The Field Museum has become home to the world’s largest collection of meteorites held outside a government agency, the result of a gift of funding and meteorites worth more than $10 million. The Field is establishing the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies.

Field’s massive meteorite collection

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The Field Museum has become home to the world’s largest collection of meteorites held outside a government agency, the result of a gift of funding and meteorites worth more than $10 million. The Field is establishing the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies.

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