METEORITES OF NORTH AMERICA. 171 



6. 1890: VENA.BLB. Meteorites of North Carolina. Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., Reprint, pp. 12-13. 



7. 1891: COHEN and WEINSCHENK. Meteoreisen-Studien. Ann. k. k. Naturhist. Hofmus.. Wien, Bd. 6, p. 161. 



8. 1894: COHEN. Meteoritenkunde, pp. 115 and 194. 



8. 1895: BREZINA. Wiener Sammlung, pp. 233, 277, and 286. 



10. 1895: COHEN. Ann. k. k. Naturhist. Hofmus., Wien, Bd. 10, p. 82. 



11. 1905: COHEN. Meteoritenkunde, Heft 3, pp. 350-354. 



East Tennessee, 1840. See Cosby Creek. 



East Tennessee, 1853. See Tazewell. 



East Tennessee, 1860. See Cleveland. 



East Tennessee, 1887. See Morristown. 



East Tennessee, 1891. See Jonesboro. 



Eau Claire. See Hammond. 



Echo. See Salt Lake City. 

 Eddy County. See Sacramento Mountains. 



EAGLE STATION. 



Carroll County, Kentucky. 



Here also Carroll County. 



Latitude 38 38' N., longitude 85 W. 



Pallasite (P) of Brezina; same (type 26) of Meunier. 



Found 1880; described 1887. 



Weight, 36.5 kgs. (80 Ibs.). 



The first description of this meteorite was by Kunz * as follows: 



This meteorite was found in 1880, about three quarters of a mile from Eagle Station, Carroll County, Kentucky, 10 

 miles from the mouth of the Kentucky River and about 7 miles in a direct line from both the Kentucky and Ohio 

 rivers. 



The mass weighs about 80 pounds (36.5 kg.), is almost square in form, and measures 19 by 22 by 29 cm. The surface 

 is rusted in some places to a depth of 10 or 12 mm., and deep pits, some 2 cm. across, are observed in spots where grains 

 of olivine have dropped out. All of the original crust has disappeared. The mass is largely made up of fine, yellow, 

 transparent olivine, resembling closely that of the famous Pallas iron. 



Fragments of meteoric iron found in the Turner Mounds in the Little Miami Valley, Ohio, some 60 miles distant, 

 probably belong to the same fall as the Eagle Station specimen. 



The iron in the Carroll County meteorite is scarcely more than sufficient to hold the mass together securely. On 

 etching, small, fine, Widmannstatten figures are produced. By reflected light, minute crystals of bronzite can easily 

 be recognized, and the analysis showed the presence of chromite in fine grains and a very small quantity of schreibersite. 



Analyses of the olivine and iron were made by J. B. Mackintosh: 



Olivine. Metallic portion. 



SiO 2 37.90 39.36 Fe 73. 44 or Fe 7L 73 



MgO 4L65 (4L83) Ni 14.27 Ni 14.27 



FeO 19.66 18.81 Co 0.95 Co 0.95 



MnO, CoO.. 0.42 P 0.05 P 0.05 



SiO, 4.23 Olivine.... 11.12 



99.63 100.00 MgO 4.69 Chromite.. 0.90 



Chromite ... 0. 90 

 Specific gravity=3.47 



98. 53 99. 02 



The balance in the last analysis is oxygen in the form of iron oxide and undetermined constituents. For the pure 

 metallic portion we obtain then a below or 6 on the assumption that the deficiency in the analysis is chiefly oxygen 

 combined with iron as magnetic oxide. 



a 6 



Fe 82.45 81.92 



Ni 16.40 16.90 



Co 1.09 1.12 



P... 0.05 0.06 



100. 00 100. 00 



For comparison, analyses of the olivine and iron from the Turner mound and Atacama meteorites are added. 



By difference. 



