[meteorite-list] NPA 09-14-1938 Providence (Kentucky) Meteorite Indentified
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri May 6 21:19:33 2005 Message-ID: <BAY104-F21DAD0FC9EDE2BA062222EB31C0_at_phx.gbl> Paper: The Daily Independent City: Monessen, Pennsylvania Date: Wednesday, September 14, 1938 Page: 4 IDENTIFY MASS FOUND IN 1908 AS METEORITE PROVIDENCE, Ky. - (U.P.) - Thirty years after its discovery on a northern Kentucky farm, a metallic mass has been identified as a meteorite, the 19th such specimen to be found in this state. Even since it was found in 1908 on the farm of W.T. Yeager near here, the specimen has been kept by Yeager in his home as a curio. He did not learn of its value as a meteorite until early this year when he took the specimen to the state highway department at Frankfort. John Stokely, geologist, submitted the curio to David M. Young, curator of the University of Kentucky geology museum, who identified it. Young said the 15-pound body was a siderite of the coarse octahedrite variety, composed chiefly of iron and nickel. The new meteorite was named the Providence siderite. (end) Received on Fri 06 May 2005 09:19:30 PM PDT |
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