On the Meteoric Iron Which Fell Near Cabin Creek, Johnson County, Arkansas, March 27, 1886.¹

Abstract

THE Johnson County meteoric iron, the tenth whose fall has been observed, is of more than ordinary interest, because its fall is so well substantiated, because it is the second largest mass ever seen to fall, and, again, because it fell within five months of the date of the ninth recorded fall, that of the Mazapil. It is almost an exact counterpart of the Hraschina (Agram, Croatia) iron, the first of the recorded falls. The Agram iron fell in two fragments, one weighing about 40 kgm., and the other about 9 kgm., the combined weight being about equal to that of the Johnson County iron.