[meteorite-list] NPA 03-15-1911: Pickens County Meteorite Added to Museum

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Sep 18 12:03:02 2004
Message-ID: <BAY4-F12JXHqKnbO9Wh000041a4_at_hotmail.com>

Hi Meteorite List Group,

Mark is still on vacation, so I will try to post some of his later newspaper
transcripts. Sorry, about that last posting, Mark sent the e-mail before he
left, but I didn't see it show so I posted it a couple times till it
did....then later the others came through. "PDF" files are available for
all the newspapers posted today upon request.

Simone Niccol
www.meteoritearticles.com




Paper: Atlanta Constitution
City: Atlanta, Georgia
Date: Sunday, March 15, 1911
Page: 3


SHOOTING STAR ADDED TO MUSEUM

Meteorite Loaned to State by Jasper County Citizens

     There was added to the state museum last week as a loan a very
interesting celestial visitor in the form of a shooting star or meteorite.
It was obtained from Messrs. Park and Hunter, of Jasper, Ga., and was picked
up by Clark Thompson, Sr., about five years ago on his farm 10 miles
southwest of Jasper, Pickens county.
     The specimen, together, with a lot of other minerals, was sent to the
state geological survey about two and one-half years ago, when it was
identified by Professor McCallie, state geologist, and described in Science
November 26, 1906. It has been named the Pickens county meteorite.
     When first sent to the office of the state geologist, the meteorite
weighed 14 ounces and was roughly cubical in shape and had the appearance of
being a part of a larger piece. Five of the faces of the irregular cube
showed comparatively fresh surfaces, while the sixth side was more or less
oxidized and showed a somewhat pitted condition, as if it was an original
surface. In color and texture it closely resembles a dark, massive piece of
furnace slag.
     The chemical analysis shows that this meteorite resembles somewhat
closely the following heretofore described meteorites, Long Island
meteorite, Kansas; Bluff meteorite, Texas; Shelbourne meteorite, Ontario and
the Bjurbole meteorite, Finland. The chief difference between the Pickens
county meteorite and the ones here named is the high percentage of titanium
present in the Pickens county meteorite. The principal minerals in all of
these stones are here given in the order of their relative importance:
Silica, alumina, iron, sulphur, nickel and sodium.
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