[meteorite-list] La Grange - Information Sought

From: Dave Myers <whitefalcons007_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:37:06 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <358295.66542.qm_at_web110105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Hi Matt and list,

Not sure why, but my 1st reply ended up in my own spam box, So not sure if you got it! ......(But what it says!..is)


La Grange (Iron) Oldham County Kentucky, 38 degrees 24'N and 85 degrees 22'w, Found in Oct. 1860 near La Grange, Oldham Co. KY.

This flatten, elongate mass is turtle-shaped and smooth. It was acquired by J.L.Smith in 1861 who distributed one-third of it to various museums.

It is classified as a fine to finest Octahedrite (subtype IVA) contains Trolites, and has interesting zig-zag features, which may represent fissuring of the main mass and injection of trolite melts. The widmanstatten strutures implying that the meteorite under-went some form of cold deformation. (A mass of 112 lbs was recovered|)

This info. is from Unbroken meteorites rough draft.com

Hope this helps
Dave





--- On Tue, 2/23/10, matt <metlist at plu.to> wrote:

> From: matt <metlist at plu.to>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] La Grange - Information Sought
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 10:10 PM
> Last week members of the British and
> Irish Meteorite Society (BIMS, http://www.bimsociety.org) visited the Manchester
> Museum (UK). One of the specimens we saw was a partslice of
> the iron La Grange, found in Kentucky in 1860. It was part
> of an old collection acquired by the Museum in the late
> 1870's.
>
> The Catalogue of Meteorites only states "A mass of 112lb
> was found". Can anybody add more information to this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt.
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