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Pitt is also the founder of the Macovich Collection of Meteorites, the world's foremost collection of aesthetic iron meteorites. Institutions that have acquired meteorites from Pitt include the Natural History Museum (London), the American Museum of Natural History (NYC), The Academy of Sciences (Beijing and Moscow) and the Smithsonian. In addition, Steven Spielberg, James Taylor, Jerry Bruckheimer, the late William Ziff and art collector Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed al-Thani are among those who have also acquired meteorites with a Macovich provenance—as has Ripley's Believe It or Not, which acquired a 1.5 ton meteorite from Pitt.
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