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| He had the largest private collection of meteors in the world at the time of his death, and they where donated to ].<ref>{{citeweb|http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995Metic..30R.579S|title= The James M. DuPont Collection of Meteorites: 1950s to 1991}}</ref> | He had the largest private collection of meteors in the world at the time of his death, and they where donated to ].<ref>{{citeweb|http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995Metic..30R.579S|title= The James M. DuPont Collection of Meteorites: 1950s to 1991}}</ref> | ||
| The ] then donated them the ], the combined collection had more than 1700 meteors and a estimated value of $3 million.<ref>{{citeweb|http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/atmospheric-science/gift-to-chicago-s-field-museum-establishes-world-s-largest-nongovernment-meteorite-collection_60958.html}}</ref> | The ] then donated them the ], the combined collection had more than 1700 meteors and a estimated value of $3 million.<ref>{{citeweb|http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/atmospheric-science/gift-to-chicago-s-field-museum-establishes-world-s-largest-nongovernment-meteorite-collection_60958.html|title=Gift to Chicago's Field Museum establishes world's largest nongovernment meteorite collection}}</ref> | ||
| == List of Meteors== | |||
| One of his meteors is displayed here the Miller Meteor. | One of his meteors is displayed here the Miller Meteor. | ||
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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.
List of Meteors
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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