[meteorite-list] NPA 11-12-1922 Odessa Meteorite Found Near "Blowout"

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Mexia Evening News
City: Mexia, Texas
Date: November 12, 1922
Page: 7


SLICE OF A METEORITE FOUND NEAR, ODESSA ADDED TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY COLLECTION 
AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

     AUSTIN, Nov. 14 - Among the recent additions in the collections of the 
Bureau of Economics Geology in the University of Texas is a polished slice 
of a meteorite found near Odessa and submitted by E. J. Wall, manager of the 
Odessa Commercial Club.
     The meteorite is new being described by Dr. George P. Merrill of the 
National Museum of Washington, D.C., who is one of the highest authorities 
on meteorites in America.  In a description written to appear in the 
American Journal of Science, Dr. Merrill says that this fragment of an iron 
meteorite was brought to his attention by Dr. A.B. Bibbons, of Baltimore, 
who stated that it was found by a ranchman at the west side of a blowout 
about nine miles southwest of Odessa.  He says that it was placed in his 
hands as a possible sample of iron ore.
     The fragment weighed 3120 grams and was said to be cut from a larger 
mass, the size of which was not given.  Exteriorly, the sample was much 
weathered and oxidized, showing that it was no very recent fall.  A slice of 
the iron freed from all crust and oxidization products was analyzed, and the 
analysis showed that the meteorite contained a little nickel, and some 
cobalt.  In addition to this, the sample contained small quantities of 
copper, chromium, carbon, phospherous and sulphur.
     The specimen will be listed in the collections of the Bureau of 
Economic Geology.  Up to this time approximately twenty meteorites have been 
found in the state of Texas.  The largest of these was acquired by the Field 
Museum in Chicago.  The Wichita County meteorite is the property of the 
University of Texas.

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