[meteorite-list] NPA 06-09-1849 Chesterville (SC) Meteorite....

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Daily Sanduskian
City: Sandusky, Ohio
Date: Saturday, June 9, 1849
Page: 2 (of 4)

METEORIC IRON IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

     The last number of Silliman's Journal contains an account of a mass of 
meteoric iron, which has been discovered in South Carolina.  It was found 
several years since by a laborer on the plantation of Mr. S.M. McKeown, 
situated in the Chesterfield district.  On being anciently shown to a 
blacksmith a few weeks, he proved it to be malleable, for out of it he made 
a pair of hinges, a few nails, and a horse shoe.  The original weight of the 
mass is said to have been 36 pounds.  Its original shape was oblong, with 
one side and end thicker and rounder than than their opposites, and its 
surface was much indented and coated by rust.
     On being analyzed this iron was found to contain nickel, traces of 
chromium, cobalt and nodular masses of magnetic pyrites.  Its most 
remarkable peculiarity, according to Professor Silliman, consists in the 
appearance of its polished surface when treated with dilute nitric acid, 
which is then covered with a great variety of beautiful figures.  It is very 
dense, and takes a brilliant polish; but its etched surface immediately 
distinguishes it from every other iron hitherto described.

National Intel.

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This article refers to the Chesterville Meteorite.


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