* Astronomy

Popeye Fontana loves collecting fossils, petrified wood, driftwood and rocks.  He has lots of shells, ferns and other items  as well as gallina, zinc, silver and lead he found in a collapsed miner's shack. One of the first things he discovered was a meteorite.  He was hunting bears in the Flathead when he noticed a large crater in a landslide; it was a circle about eight feet deep and ten feet wide "Like an ice cream cone, in the very bottom was a green and orange meteorite full of holes. I bent down and touched it with a stick, it was very heavy but I took it out and used it as a doorstop on my porch for years until I loaned it to a friend in Trail, never got it back".

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