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

[MARK BOSTICK]

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
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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.