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Fayette County. See Bluff. 



FELIX. 



Perry County, Alabama. 

 Latitude 32 3(X N., longitude 87 9' W. 

 Stone. Spherical chondrite (Cc), of Brezina. 

 Fell 11.30 a. m., May 15, 1900; described 1901. 

 Weight, 3 kgs. (7 Ib8.). 



This meteorite was described by Merrill * as follows : 



The meteorite here described fell about 11.30 a. m., on May 15, 1900, near Felix, Perry County, Alabama. For 

 the details concerning the fall * * * the Museum is indebted to Mr. J. W. Colman, who obtained them from eye- 

 witnesses as follows: 



Mr. Robert D. Sturdevant, a farmer of Augustin, Perry County, said that while at work in his cotton field his 

 attention was attracted by a loud rumbling noise sounding very much like thunder. It being a clear, cloudless day, 

 he immediately looked up and saw the meteorite directly overhead. There was one very loud report, followed by 

 two lesser ones, the appearance being compared to that of "a big piece of red-hot iron being struck with a hammer, 

 causing many sparks to fly in all directions. After the explosion the smaller pieces popping off sounded much like a 

 small stone or nail being thrown with great force, making a humming or hissing noise. The meteor seemed to be 

 passing from east to west." 



The main mass of the stone, weighing about 7 pounds, was subsequently brought by a colored boy to Mr. Sturde- 

 vant, who visited the locality, about half a mile away, and found that in falling it had made a hole about 6 inches deep 

 in the soft plowed ground. 



Mr. Robert S. Browning, who was on Mr. Sturdevant's place at the time of the fall, stated that "there was a 

 rumbling noise, followed by three loud reports much like thunder or a big gun." He compared the appearance of 

 the meteorite to that of "a big shovel of red-hot coals being upset." 



Mr. W. A. Kenan, of Benton, Alabama, some 25 miles from the place where the stone was found, stated that the 

 report was heard in Selma, Montgomery, and Marion, the latter place being about 16 miles west of Augustin. 



So far as can be learned, the stone broke into three pieces, the larger of which alone is now known, the second 

 having been lost, and the third, if such there was, never having been found. 



The piece which was reserved has been broken into five, which weigh together 2,049 grams. It measured, entire, 

 about 13 by 9 cm. in breadth and thickness. The color of the broken surface is dark smoky gray, almost black. It 

 is very fine-grained, with numerous small dark chondri not more than 1 to 2 mm. in diameter at most, and with no 

 metallic iron visible to the naked eye. The mass is quite soft and friable, and resembles in a general way the stones 

 of Warren ton and Lance. * * * 



Under the microscope the stone is seen to belong to the chondritic type. The essential minerals are olivine, 

 augite, and enstatite, with troilite and native iron; the silicates occurring in the form of chondri or associated with 

 more or less fragmental particles, embedded in a dark opaque, or faintly translucent base, which is irresolvable so far 

 as the microscope is concerned. 



The details of the microscopic structure are as follows: In a very dense, dark gray, seemingly amorphous base 

 are scattered various silicate minerals in the form of fragments and chondri, and interspersed with occasional minute 

 blebs of native iron and troilite. The chondri are composed of olivine, enstatite, or augite, and are sometimes 

 monosomatic and sometimes polysomatic, holocrystalline, or with a varying amount of glassy base. Interspersed with 

 these are fragments of olivlnes and enstatites of all sizes, from half a millimeter down to the finest dust. Scattered 

 through the groundmass are proportionally large plates or clusters of enstatites. These are very light gray in color, 

 with poorly defined outlines and extremely irregular borders projecting into black irresolvable material which forms 

 the base. The enstatite chondri are in some cases almost completely amorphous or cryptocrystalline. 



Many of the augites show polysynthetic twinning, such as was noted by Tschermak in the meteorites of Renazzo 

 and Mezo Madras, as do also those of the meteorite of Warrenton, Warren County, Missouri. The banding is in some 



