[meteorite-list] NPA 03-09-1935 Farmville, North Carolina Meteorite Found

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Sheboygan Press
City: Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Date: Saturday, March 9, 1935
Page: 24 (of 32)

FIND METEOR SCRAPS

     Raleigh, N.C.- (UP) - A meteor which crashed to earth last December, 
causing Eastern North Carolinians to fear the world had ended, is gradually 
being rounded up.  A fragment weighing 111 pounds has been found a mile and 
a half from where another chunk, weighing 13 pounds, was discovered.

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This article refers to the Farmville meteorite which fell in Pitt County, 
North Carolina on December 4, 1934.  Two pieces were found totalling 56 kg.  
This meteorite is an H4 stone chondrite.


(Ref: Meteorites A to Z, Second Edition).

Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
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