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- OBJECT TYPE
- COMMEMORATIVE
- DATE
- 1992
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1994.0040.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- WORLD SPACE CONGRESS 1992
- LOCATION
- Unknown
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- .1 NON-FERROUS METAL/.2 PAPER
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 7.0 cm
- Width
- 7.0 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Space Technology
- Category
- Commemorative
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
COMMEMORATIVE ITEM, ALSO SERVING TO HOLD PAPERS IN PLACE ON A DESK OR THE LIKE. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 ON FRONT: RAISED `WORLD SPACE/ CONGRESS/ 1992' IN CENTRE & AROUND EDGES `IAF COSPAR/ NAS/ AIAA/ NASA'; ON BACK RAISED `"The ocean, the atmosphere,outer/ space, belong not to one nation or/ one ideology, but to all mankind"/ -John F. Kennedy/ This paper-weight contains/ material flown aboard Space/ Shuttle Discovery, STS-42; Soyuz/ TM-11; and a stony meteorite/ recovered near Forrest, Australia./ Courtesy of NASA, NPO Energia and Space Studies Institute.'/.2 BLACK LETTERING READS `ORGANIZED BY THE / American Institute/ of Aeronautics/ and Astronautics. AIAA/ 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW/ Washington, DC 29924-2518 USA'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- .1 GREY/.2 WHITE ENVELOPE WITH MULTICOLOURED POSTAGE STAMP
- Decoration
- .1 RAISED LINES & TEXTURED SURFACES/.2 POSTAGE STAMP READS `THEODORE/ VON KARMAN/ AEROSPACE SCIENTIST/ USA 29'; POSTMARK READS `WORLD SPACE CONGRESS STATION/ SEPT 1, 1992/ WASHINGTON, DC 20066'; BLUE & GREY LOGO READS `WORLD/ SPACE/ CONGRESS/ 1992/ IAF COSPAR'
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Unknown Manufacturer, Paperweight, 1992, Artifact no. 1994.0040, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1994.0040.001/
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