Paper: Mexia Evening News City: Mexia, Texas Date: November 12, 1922 Page: 7
SLICE OF A METEORITE FOUND NEAR, ODESSA ADDED TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY COLLECTION AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
AUSTIN, Nov. 14 - Among the recent additions in the collections of the Bureau of Economics Geology in the University of Texas is a polished slice of a meteorite found near Odessa and submitted by E. J. Wall, manager of the Odessa Commercial Club.
The meteorite is new being described by Dr. George P. Merrill of the National Museum of Washington, D.C., who is one of the highest authorities on meteorites in America. In a description written to appear in the American Journal of Science, Dr. Merrill says that this fragment of an iron meteorite was brought to his attention by Dr. A.B. Bibbons, of Baltimore, who stated that it was found by a ranchman at the west side of a blowout about nine miles southwest of Odessa. He says that it was placed in his hands as a possible sample of iron ore.
The fragment weighed 3120 grams and was said to be cut from a larger mass, the size of which was not given. Exteriorly, the sample was much weathered and oxidized, showing that it was no very recent fall. A slice of the iron freed from all crust and oxidization products was analyzed, and the analysis showed that the meteorite contained a little nickel, and some cobalt. In addition to this, the sample contained small quantities of copper, chromium, carbon, phospherous and sulphur.
The specimen will be listed in the collections of the Bureau of Economic Geology. Up to this time approximately twenty meteorites have been found in the state of Texas. The largest of these was acquired by the Field Museum in Chicago. The Wichita County meteorite is the property of the University of Texas.
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