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From II above the mineralogical composition appears to be: 



Nickel-iron * 96. II 



Schreibersito 2. 19 



Carbon 1. GO 



Daubreelite 0. 03 



Troilite 0. 05 



Lawrencite 0. 02 



100. 00 



The meteorite is distributed, but the Vienna collection possesses nearly half the amount, 

 10,702 grams. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1. 1887: Brezina. Neue Meteoriten III. Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, Bd. 2 (Not.), p. 115. 



2. 1893: Brezina. Ueber neuere Meteoriten (Niirnberg), p. 166. 



3. 1893: Meunier. Revision des fers me'teoriques, pp. 67-68. (Illustration of etching.) 



4. 1895: Brezina. Wiener Sammlung, p. 292. 



5. 1895: Cohen. Meteoreisen-Studien IV. Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, Bd. 10, p. 83. 



6. 1895: Moissan. Etude de quelque meteorites. Comptes Rendus, Tome 121, p. 484. 



7. 1896: Moissan. Recherches sur les differentes varietes de carbone. A. Ch. P., 7th ser., vol. 8, pp. 316-317. 



8. 1900: Cohen. Meteoreisenstudien XI. Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien. Bd. 15, pp. 382-3S7. 



9. 1905: Cohen. Meteoritenkunde, Heft 3, pp. 241-245. 



KENTON COUNTY. 

 Kentucky. 



Here also Independence. 

 Latitude 39° 5' N., longitude 84° 30' W. 



Iron. Medium octahedrite (Om), of Brezina; Caillite (type 18), of Meunier. 

 Pound 1889; described 1892. 

 Weight, 163 kgs. (359.5 lbs.). 



This meteorite has been chiefly described by Preston, 1 an abstract of whose account 

 follows : 



The mass was found by Mr. Geo. W. Cornelius, about the middle of August, 1889, while cleaning out a spring on 

 his farm, about 8 miles from Independence, Kenton County, Kentucky. It. was buried 3 or 4 feet below the normal 

 surface of the ground and interlocked in the roots of an ash tree. The finder allowed the mass to lie by the spring 

 until August of the following year, when he removed it to his woodshed, where it remained until purchased by Ward's 

 Natural Science Establishment, of Rochester, New York. 



The mass weighed 359.5 pounds (163.0665 kg.) and measured 21 by 14 by 8 inches (533 by 356 by 203 mm.). In 

 form in certain directions it very much resembled a Nautilus. It had numerous but mostly shallow pittings; a few 

 deep pittings occurred, however, on one side. It was entirely devoid of crust. 



Analysis by Davison gave: 



Fe Ni Co Cu C S P 



91. 59 7. 65 0. 84 trace 0. 12 trace trace =100. 20 



The possibility of the fall of the meteorite having taken place July 7, 1873, is suggested from observations of people 

 in the vicinity, but this does not seem very probable. 



Meunier 2 placed the iron in the Caillite group and described the structure as follows : 



Acids develop a figure in which kamacite predominates rather more than in the type. Tsenite occurs in very 

 thin folise wanting in certain parts. Inclusions of black matter occur here and there, often limited by the angular 

 contours of the neighboring alloy. Masses of schreibersite in small lamellae are irregularly disseminated through the 

 mass. Troilite appears to be rare. 



Brezina 4 described the structure as follows: 



Independence (Kenton County) is distinguished by an unusual richness in small rounded troilite crystals which 

 are pretty well distributed through the whole mass. The bands are long and grouped, often weakly bent through the 

 whole group; fields abundant and large, mostly filled with fine-grained kamacite, often alternating with comb-like 

 forms. Tsenite weakly developed. Kamacite strongly granular, finely pitted, and of flaky dull appearance. The 

 whole iron is somewhat altered, especially near the surface. Separation occurs at times along the tsenite plates. 



