[meteorite-list] NPA 09-14-1938 Providence (Kentucky) Meteorite Indentified

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Daily Independent
City: Monessen, Pennsylvania
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 1938
Page: 4

IDENTIFY MASS FOUND IN 1908 AS METEORITE

     PROVIDENCE, Ky. - (U.P.) - Thirty years after its discovery on a 
northern Kentucky farm, a metallic mass has been identified as a meteorite, 
the 19th such specimen to be found in this state.
     Even since it was found in 1908 on the farm of W.T. Yeager near here, 
the specimen has been kept by Yeager in his home as a curio.
     He did not learn of its value as a meteorite until early this year when 
he took the specimen to the state highway department at Frankfort.  John 
Stokely, geologist, submitted the curio to David M. Young, curator of the 
University of Kentucky geology museum, who identified it.
     Young said the 15-pound body was a siderite of the coarse octahedrite 
variety, composed chiefly of iron and nickel.  The new meteorite was named 
the Providence siderite.

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