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 www.meteoritearticles.com
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.
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