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21. 



Rockingham Meteorite. 



Locality — Smith's Mt., Rockingham county. Analysts — Genth and Smith. 



This was found in 1866 at Smith^s Mountain, two miles north 

 of Madison, in an old field grown up with pines, but cultivated 

 ten or fifteen years previously. It fell probably in the interval. 

 The original weight was eleven pounds. It is highly crystalline 

 and on etching gives fine AVidmanstiitten figures, showing that it 

 consists of probably three kinds of iron. It contains also 

 schreibersite in short, very minute quadratic crystals, and, accord- 

 ing to J. L. Smith, solid chloride of iron. Specific gravity, 7.78. 



Iron 90.41 90.88 



Nici<el \ Q - . 8.08 



Cobalt / ^-'^ .50 



Copper 11 .03 



T , ,, (Iron 27 



Insoluble 1 xt- 1 I lr^ l y.^ qq 



Phosphide:::;.: Nickel (Cobalt). 



^ \ rhosphorus 



phorus 14 .03 



100.00 99.46 



Literature — Min. and Min. Loc, p. 15; Kerr, p. 313; Kerr Appendix, p. 56; 

 Sclent. Res., p. 526. 



Present Possessors — N. C. State Museum ; Jardin des Piantes, Paris ; Lon- 

 don, 77.3 grams; Vienna, 124; Gottingen, 54; Harvard, 821; Nat. Mus., 

 58.8; Gregory, 8; Bailey, 128. 



22. 



Rockingham Meteorite. 



Locality — Rockingham county. ^ Analyst — Venable. 



This mass was reported to have fallen about the year 1846 on 

 Deep Springs Farm, Rockingham county. Its fall caused much 

 terror among the negroes on the place. It was dug out imme- 

 diately after falling, being buried four or five feet under the sur- 

 face. After lying about the house for many years, it was in the 

 fall of 1889 presented to the State Mu.seum. 



The weight of the ma.ss was 11.5 kilos. It measured 270 x 210 

 mm., having a varying thickness of 10 to 70 mm. It is coated 



