Peary took an iron meteorite from Greenland to the chagrin of the local Inuit who had been using it for knives. Whacking it with a rock in -40 temperatures migh

Peary took an iron meteorite from Greenland to the chagrin of the local Inuit who had been using it for knives. Whacking it with a rock in -40 temperatures might have been the mechanism. The meteorite is now in a New York museum.