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Meteor over Mount Rushmore

by

Wally Pacholka/Novapix

Reference

a-efi06-00001

Date

2009-12-19

A meteor crosses the sky above the Black Hills of South Dakota and the United States' Mount Rushmore National Park. The historic site features enormous sculptures of four US presidents; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, carved into the southeast face of granite cliffs.