How Oregon's Great Meteorite Mystery was Solved
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- In 1856, a massive meteorite was discovered in Oregon's coastal mountains... and then disappeared without a trace. This documentary tells the full story of the infamous Port Orford Meteorite, and its fascinating geological investigation that spanned 130 years.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
3:06 - Early Search Efforts
8:36 - Raising Doubts
15:24 - Analyzing Evans
21:36 - Identifying the Meteorite
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Further reading:
Overview by J. Hugh Pruett (1950)
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Critical analysis by Edward Henderson & Hollis Dole (1964)
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Historical investigation by Howard Plotkin and geological analysis by Vagn Buchwald & Roy Clarke (1993)
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As someone who studied geology in the pnw this was a lot of fun. I've heard parts of the story but nothing as well laid out as what you've done. Thanks!
As a 5th generation native of Coos County and having been in the Iron Mt/Powers Ranch region from time to time, I found this episode extremely interesting... and here I thought i was fascinated enough about Portlands freeway infrastructure you documented. Truly incredible work and I enjoy your episodes immensely.
I was raised in the area and have heard the stories since childhood, including variations on the tale of it being buried under a road.
When I was a kid, one of the locals pulled a prank of standing above a road at night, and when a car came down the road firing a flare which went high over the car and fell into a field below the road. This triggered a report of a fallen meteorite, which escalated to a search of that field by a university professor and students.
I never heard of this case before. But what a great story. It's got everything: the wild west, my Pacific Northwest, wilderness hiking, surveying, chicanery, and a fabulous stone. Thanks for this.
My Mom's former house on Patricia Dr. in Gladstone has a rock protruding out of a south facing hillside which is etched with a depiction of a meteor and several lines trailing from it falling from the sky. It's been over 30 years since Mom sold the house but I remember it well because the older neighbor told me the Oregon Historical Society had been there previously and said it was common for the young indigenous warriors to record events of their "spirit walks" as a right of passage. This young man depiction was his memory of the Willamette Meteorite in my opinion. It was overgrown when I found it clearing brush from the front of the property. The house has an extremely steep driveway shaped like a horse shoe ( drive up one side and down the other side) and the rock is right in the middle. I would like to see it again someday.
That's cool that u even got to see it you know !!!
That is so amazing 😊
This sounds cool… I’m 12 miles from Gladstone. I should take a quick drive up there to see if it’s visible!
If it's a pictograph, it needs to be preserved. Someone should call the state university archeology department so they can document it.
@@nancid5265 Thanks! Do you have pictures?
As a native Oregonian I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you so much!
I was literally just today thinking "I hope he's still making videos." And here we are!
I've been in Oregon since the late 70's and didn't know about this.
Not only well-researched as many have said, but assembled into a story arc that remains engaging throughout and delivers a satisfying conclusion.
What does LITERALLY mean ???? Please explain .
At first I heard *Bald mountain, and I live in Corvallis Oregon my entire life. There's Bald hill here right by the coastal range area (ish) and I was like (it would be crazy if it was there?) This is so well made I LOVE this video! Thanks for making great content about my home state that holds such amazing things that are not if ever covered or documented in modern form. I appreciate your work a ton. *I have always wondered if a nifty little video could be made covering the history about the little mining camps of quartzville and Bohemia Mountain. Then Clear Lake , the Blue Pool, fish lake, lost lake (that yearly drains itself through a geological hole in the volcanic sedimentary layers under a certain region of the lake which refills each year. Then clear lake and the blue pool are both fed by underground aquifers. Ancient trees are perfectly preserved in clear lake due to the water composition and temperature. Man the Natural World is just so awesome.
I am absolutely...... FLOORED that nobody compared this sample to the other known samples for so long.
Wow! I lived in Oregon for 18 years and never heard of this mystery. Thanks for this excellent documentary about it! I always enjoy your videos and look forward to seeing more of them. You cover a great variety of topics that make me homesick for the Rose City and the Beaver State. Thank you!
You hit this one out of the park. I was drawn in and held throughout. I love a good mystery, and this was fascinating, and fun!
Well done Mr. Dibble!
Your videos deserve 10x the views. The effort/quality does not reflect the view count and it's sad. These are amazing videos! Good job Peter! I appreciate it
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As a musician, not only do i enjoy the content of your videos, i really love the music. The pairing of the 2 factors is excellent.
Your videos are absolutely fascinating. Your channel came up in my recommended feed a few months ago and I'm so glad it did. Your production level is so good and I'm neither a historian nor from the Pacific Northwest and I just end up engrossed. A channel focused on the history of a region's landscape is a niche that so few explore and yet you find such amazing topics and discuss them so thoroughly and with such depth. I could truly see your videos as a multi-episode docuseries on a streaming service. They're just that well done. I'm passing this video link onto my friends in the hopes of spreading the word about your channel just a little bit. You deserve all the views you get and more.
Wow, thanks so much for the kind feedback! 😊
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I absolutely love these videos! Everyone that I have watched shows a great dedication to the research and story of some amazing PNW tales! Keep up the good work!
Well, that all I need to hear. I subbed. I hope you’re right. Not like it would be the end of the world if I didn’t like it. At least it isn’t about shoes or socks. Who would make videos about that??
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As a longtime Oregon resident I love these videos
Thank you for the very good and professionally done video...and no overdone irritating sound effects in the background thank you again for that!!
The human spirit is driven by the thrill of the search. That's is a great quote.
Rivetting beyond description! Masterful summary of carefully gathered pieces of data. Congratuations - I'm now off to watch your other documentaries! 😊
Evans, you sir, were a miscreant! lol I like the footage of the cowboys and cowgirls dancing near the end. Made me laugh after all that serious fact finding. What a great historical video. Your production skills are top notch!
What an excellent job putting this all together. Thanks so much!
Bro, such a tale, I loved it, one of the best half hour spent of my life.
This is one of the best little documentaries I've seen for a while. Thank you Peter!
Such an amazing story that took a turn I never would have expected! Your content is such high quality an have enjoyed every video of yours (so far)!
Amazing documentary! Thank you for doing the work to make this possible.
Beautifully produced and edited! Another masterpiece Peter!
Thank you for bringing this fascinating story to RUclips.
Another amazing video! Thank you for all your work.
Peter- I LOVE your videos- I was just looking you up to show my roomate your video about the freeway system that could have been and I was like “omg he just posted a new video 4 hours ago, let’s watch that instead!” Really appreciate the content and research put into your videos- the freest system one was just fascinating thinking of what it all could have been like (and how much easier it would have been to get around the city). Keep it up, more Oregon PNW content!!
Thanks a lot! 😊 Another Oregon topic is already well underway.
I myself, am from the Pacific Northwest and had never heard of the meteorite. When younger I would go to Native reservations and seek out elders to discuss the past. This led me on some interesting and often dangerous hikes into the mountains. I've never shared the places I found as a result of these discussions, for fear they would be desecrated by fortune hunters. I never betrayed the trust offered to me by those I had spoken with and to this day, they and myself are the only ones who know of these places.
Yet, your anonymity is lost?
Yeah sure
Yes More Oregon/PNW Content!!
Always love your videos Peter. Can't wait to see what you come up with next. Also really glad to see those numbers growing, you're going to be huge once the algorithm picks you up.
Love this kind of documentary! Keep up the great work 😃
Gosh, you do an amazing job making a subject that is not exactly interesting to me become very interesting! I hope you keep up the great work and keep teaching us all.
Good story with a surprise ending. Thank you for producing and posting this video.
This was so well done. I thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you.
What a fascinating video! This was completely under my radar - I had never even heard of the Port Orford meteorite before watching this video.
Wow! I lived through this and never remember hearing of it. Fascinating! Thank you for your great work.
Thoroughly interesting, thank you, Peter.
A very fascinating story that you turned into an equally fascinating video ! Thanks !
Good work. Really enjoyed your content and style.
Your work is an amazing masterpiece, keep going and never give up!
A fascinating story. Recently I visited the Hayden planetarium in New York City. They had on display the largest meteorite ever found in the United States called The Willamette Meteorite. The meteorite was discovered in Oregon's Willamette Valley in 1902; the valley's indigenous Clackamas Indians claimed it as a sacred object. But a local man took the meteorite and sold it to a private collector. The collector donated it to the American Museum of Natural History, where it has remained for 99 years. Although it apparently landed somewhere in Canada? the Missoula Floods pushed it down to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I guess meteors just love that state :-)
There was a cast copy of the Willamette meteorite in front of the Willamette institute of science and technology (Wistec) next to Autzen stadium in Eugene. It's a kid's science museum now with a nice planetarium, don't know if the display is still there...
Which all makes the destruction of the state by psychotic liberal "politicians" even more despicable. So sad...
Wish I had better words to convey how interesting, entertaining and overall outstanding this video is. Instant subscriber/fan. Well done, you!
Fantastic work as usual!
Fantastic video!! I'm always very excited whenever you publish a new video.
Nicely done. Good visuals, great pacing, wonderful denouement.
Another great video Peter!
Fascinating that it took so many experts from various places to determine the true identity of the specimen. All it took was about 100 years, men with open minds, and perseverance.
This is a very detailed historical account. Nice job!
Great job, Peter. Thanks.
I said it before and I'll say it again, Mr. Dibble: your documentaries are worthy of the likes of The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Learning Channel, or some such other broadcast venue. Your productions are THAT good.
Like the utilization of excerpts from famous movies (hope you don't get in trouble for copyright infringement), particularly the "letter deluge" given that it was a "miracle" this meteoritic mystery was ever solved, lol!
Thanks a lot! I thought those clips would help add a little flair, lol.
Great video as always. Very well done!
Incredible story and so well produced. Thank you! Look forward to your stories every month!
Fabulous job - well done!
Hello as a coos county native ( coos bay ) I used to be a camper and a counselor of a Camp that Used to be @ the entrance of Dry Creek off the SIxes river Port orford
.. used to be a homestead there . A Barn and a Orchard.The Camp was called Camp Humdinger,It was a Camp for Low Income kids .For years this ran as a camp.Two Camp Stories were the strange rock @ or around the 2 mile mark up the dry creek. We used to have a campsite for the kids near the base of Grassy Nob .There was a very deep swim hole and a waterfall . The rock we jumped off was called Meteorite rock, It was jaggy and dangerous to climb sharp rocks . Pockets ..I always told everyone that the waterfall was faster and made the pockets ...Best to go up in the summertime , when the Steelhead people come up and take out steelheads that are stuck in pockets of water and the water drops underground you may have to swim in places .. but stay on the river when you do hit the water stream because it still flows. You may run into one waterfall (that is another story) but keep going waterfall is center the stream i called them butt crack falls .strange rock was on the left . On facebook there is a page to Camp Humdinger !Oregon page and there is one picture of kids jumping off of it ..
Killer detail and great job! Loved it
Your channel is absolute gold!
I feel incredibly lucky to be a resident of Oregon at the same time that you’re doing your work. If you can dig deep into the state of Jefferson we SoOr /NorCal locals would LOVE it.
Thank you for your consideration and talent!
I'm in Northwest California and I'm proud to be a supporter and believer in the Great State of Jefferson!
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@@puro-SUR-TRECE there are signs in Selma, Grants Pass, Eagle Point and along the 101. Yes we do lol
Very interesting and well told story. The music was great and listed in "Show More" section. Great job Peter.
This is such good content sir, thank you!!
Glad I found your channel, looking forward to future vids.
This is a fascinating story that I've never heard before.
Well laid out report for us to see and hear. Thank You.
Love having an Oregon centric content creator. Keep it up
Scientific detective work like this is always fascinating. There's still a lot of misinformation floating around, waiting to be torpedoed by truth.
Very entertaining and informative. Great job!
There were quite a number of "scientists" in the years before 1900 who brought "amazing discoveries" to a credulous public in the cities of Europe and eastern North America. Many of them gained government support for their "research" even though they were little more than scams. Although I spent some time in Port Orford, where an aunt and uncle lived, I had never heard of this story. Thank you for making the documentary
Another amazing PNW documentary! I love them! Thank you.
Nice Work! Thanks!
Wow! I grew up in Port Orford. I remember reading an article on this meteor as a kid. Years later I remembered the story and wanted to reread the research. Googled for more information and couldn't find anything. So cool!
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Well done and very interesting indeed. Thank you.
Most interresting video in weeks!
Great work!
Thank you for bringing a video of decent content. As old as I am, I still like learning.
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Very imprerssive, thanks for sharing!
I love your pictures and cute check marks and such between the pictures. Very good. Thank you.
Very well done. Your video / pics, & story, made for an interesting presentation.
Australia too has such a story. Early 1910's, In the northern territory. A character, a confabulation, became the centre of his story of an enormous gold reef. Hundreds went with the hope of it's finding. Some died. The 1980s Casino, Lasseter's, is named for him, implying, all who gamble are fools.
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Amazing work!
Thank you for this excellent, fascinating video. Subscribed.
Excellent video. Thanks!
You'd also think that a 5 foot, 10-11 ton meteorite would leave a crater, and not just stick out of a mountainside.
Good point
This was a great finding! excelent video! by the start I was thrilled by the mistery proposed and started wathching thinking "man, I wish my country had more of this interesting stories, well documented and told in a informative manner", then it took a turn that I saw comming but was thoroughly explained and ended with something that I didn't knew about my own country... I live in Chile and I have never heard about the IMILAC meteorite... now I know a little trivia about where I live. Thanks!
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Very well made video!
Amazing video, keep it up!
Well told, thank you.
From the title of this story, I thought you were going to tell the story of the meteorite from Oregon in the New York museum at the Teddy Roosevelt park. I first saw a picture of this meteorite in a book that i acquired in about 1945 but obviously that wasn`t it. This is a 16 ton meteorite which I finally got to see a few years ago.
Thanks! Another fascinating story.
This was excellent, thank you.
A local legend, love this story about my beautiful home. Thanks for sharing this lesser known history about Coos/Curry county
Loved it thank you for the history lesson!
hello Peter. Good work. Lots of old photos and videos. Anyway, thanks for sharing! Stay healthy!
I love this story… it’s crazy to me that one guy managed to keep this going for over 100 years! I bet there are still people out there looking for it though, hoax or no hoax, because that’s just how some people are!
Thank you, very well done.
What an amazing channel. Only issue is there is too little contents. Do more videos 🙏
Peter...well done!
Another great video. As a suggestion for another, I went to the Hanthorn Cannery Museum in Astoria, and saw a plot of salmon production on the Columbia since the 1800s. There’s definitely a video there on the Rise & Fall of Salmon (and hopefully recovery one day) on the Columbia. It’s a great story spanning centuries, from first peoples to explorers and Oregon trail migrations, hydro power, the massive cannery industry that just completely dead, the evolution of conservation and environmentalist movements. Lots of interesting tidbits along the way. Thanks for making these.
Awesome awesome awesome. Great job man. I love it.