Wilbert Smith Archives Files Box 1131 19 1131-19-p017

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near one of the outer edges. By scratching away the potting plastic, it was possible to identify an electronic component which appeared to be a transistor’ Another strange aspect of the metal was that a very larze number of inclusions covered its surface and microphotography indicated that these were possibly micrometeorites, which would imply the metal had been in space for some time, Learning that this metal had now been discarded in the CADE garbage dump, two members of the Ottawa Flying...