DISCOVERY OF THE WALL TOWN, KENTUCKY, STONY METEORITE

Name: WALL TOWN

Place of find: On a farm near Walltown, Casey County, Kentucky, USA. 37^°19 '30"N, 84^°43'0"W.

Date of find: 1956 and 1957

Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6).

Number of individual specimens: Several fragments of an individual.

Total weight: 1.6 kg remaining from a much larger mass.

Circumstances of find: In 1963, J.W. Flanigan of Waynesburg, Kentucky, brought an angular rock fragment which he suspected of being a meteorite to the laboratory of Dr. William D. Ehmann at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Mr. Flanigan reported that the specimen was one of several found originally in 1956 and 1957 on a farm owned by Henry Naper near Walltown. The specimen was found on strata described as Upper Missippian. Other fragments had been found and discarded with rubble used to fill a large sink hole on the farm. The original mass of material may have been over 10 kg. Fragments of the meteorite are in the private collection of W.D. Ehmann and the main mass is in the possession of Mr. Flanigan.