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Revision as of 07:41, 8 February 2010 by Mdupont (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)James Maxime DuPont was a renown collector meteors. He also founded a industrial thermoplastics company. He had the largest private collection of meteors in the world at the time of his death, and they where donated to Planetary_Studies_Foundation. The Planetary_Studies_Foundation then donated them the Field_Museum_of_Natural_History, the combined collection had more than 1700 meteors and a estimated value of $3 million.
One of his meteors is displayed here the Miller Meteor.
Here is an article about the Collescipoli meteor.
References
- "Memorial for James Maxime DuPont (1912-1991) Meteoritics, vol. 27, page 105".
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