A 1920 news picture showing a giant meteor (The Cape York meteorite)discovered by Commander Peary in Better known as Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary the American explorer and US Navy officer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
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