Description:
A large meteorite, one of the fragments from the world's largest meteorite, at Canyon Diablo, Arizona.

Label Text:
From the exhibition, Lenka Clayton - Comedy plus Tragedy, Skinner Museum 75, September 28, 2021 - May 29, 2022
Suspended above you is 115 pounds of celestial metal that has encountered both the beauty and severity of the solar system. Fifty millennia ago a giant mass of nickel and iron from the depths of space exploded into the atmosphere above what is now Canyon Diablo, New Mexico.

As the dust settled around what is now a giant crater, the asteroid’s monumental voyage across millions of miles ended here on Earth. After countless millennia, Clayton has returned this meteor fragment into the air once again. This is a fitting homage to an object that, since the beginning of time itself, has had the freedom of flight.

Tags:
rocks

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