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Three New Siderites from Kentucky: Campbellsville, Clark County, and Providence *
Author(s) -
Young David M.
Publication year - 1939
Publication title -
contributions of the society for research on meteorites
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0096-2813
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1939.tb00230.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , iron meteorite , geology , archaeology , metallurgy , geochemistry , mineralogy , art , history , materials science , astrobiology , physics
A bstract On June 3, 1929, the seventeenth Kentucky meteorite (Campbellsville) was ploughed from a field by Mr. E. B. Watson on the farm of Edgar Cox, near Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky. The original weight of the iron was 34 pounds, about one‐half of which has been distributed. It is classed as a coarse octahedrite (Og) and has the following chemical composition: iron, 88.99%; nickel, 10.27%; cobalt, 0.26%; and traces of carbon, silica, manganese, copper, and titanium. The eighteenth meteorite from Kentucky (Clark County) was found in 1937. It was purchased by Mr. J. D. Figgins of the Bernheim Museum, who exchanged most of it with the American Meteorite Laboratory, where it will be described. The original weight was 26 pounds. The latest identification of a siderite in Kentucky (Providence) was made in July, 1938, although the specimen was found 35 years before. Mr. W. T. Yeager, owner of a farm located about one mile southwest of Providence, Trimble County, Kentucky, found the iron in 1903 in an orchard where it was exposed at the surface of the ground. Unaware of its true character, but interested because of its weight, he kept the specimen as a curiosity until it became known to the writer. The weight is 15 pounds, and although badly oxidized, the coarse octahedral crystallization is well defined. The meteorite is classed as a coarse octahedrite (Og) and contains 88.54% iron, 10.30% nickel, 0.30% cobalt, etc .