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THE FELIX METEORITE.—In a recent number of the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Mr. G. P. Merrill gives an account of the fall of a meteoric stone at 11.30 a.m. on May 15, 1900, near Felix Alabama. A luminous meteor was seen and three loud reports as of explosion were heard. The main mass weighed about 7 lbs. and was found buried six inches deep in soft ground. In aspect of fractured surface the material is like that of the stones of Warrenton and Lancé, but the chondritic character is more pronounced than in the latter and the colour is darker than in the former, owing to the presence of graphitic carbon in appreciable quantity. The essential minerals are, olivine(73 per cent.), augite and enstatite (18 per cent.), with troilite (5 per cent.), nickel-iron (3 per cent.) and graphitic carbon (0.4 per cent.): the micro structure is tuff-like.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 65, 543 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065543a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/065543a0