Meteorite on display in Castle Rock this weekend

Graichen told him that he believed it was a stony meteorite. He gave Wasson contact information for an expert at Western Washington University in Bellingham.

A couple of weeks later, Wasson got paperwork showing that his simple garden ornament was a 45 million-year-old rock that had fallen to Earth from outer space. The specialist at WWU suggested that Wasson contact Cascadia Meteorite Lab at Portland State University for further study.