Somalia’s lost meteorite: How a cosmic treasure vanished to China
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Mogadishu (HOL) — For generations, a hulking brown boulder sat quietly in a Somali river valley, its iron surface hammered by villagers who used it as a whetstone, a landmark and a source of folklore. Children in El Ali, a settlement in central Somalia, calSomalia’s lost meteorite: How a cosmic treasure vanished to China
Mogadishu (HOL) — For generations, a hulking brown boulder sat quietly in a Somali river valley, its iron surface hammered by villagers who used it as a whetstone, a landmark and a source of folklore. Children in El Ali, a settlement in central Somalia, called it Shiid-birood or “the iron rock.” Read more