5.6 grams. L6
TKW 1020 grams. Observed fall April 26, 1917, near Troup, Texas
Found at the arrow (green or red) on this map.
Shawn writes:
THE TROUP, TEXAS, METEORITE.
By J. A. Udden,
Of the University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
This meteor was secured soon after its fall by Mr. T. M. Coupland, of Troup, Texas, and by him donated to the University of Texas. It fell close to a negro boy, who was ploughing in a field about 3 miles north of Troup on the morning of April 26, 1917. The boy heard the meteor and "saw it smoking" after it hit the ground. He did not investigate the fall, but an older person, Forrest Lawson, went to the place indicated by the boy and found the meteor about 6 inches below the surface of the ground. It was later during the day brought to Mr. Coupland who first identified it as a meteor.
In a letter of the same date to Prof. H. Y. Benedict, of the University of Texas, Mr. Coupland related the circumstances of the observation of the fall as given above and said that the meteor weighed 2 pounds and 4.5 ounces; that it was "black on the outside, but about the color of lime rock after the surface was removed. It also appears to have some flakes of bright metal scattered through."
A few days after the fall Mr. Coupland addressed a circular letter to some people in Smith and adjacent counties. In this he inquired for observations on the fall of the meteorite and secured some information worth recording. At Nacogdoches, some 47 miles southsoutheast from Troup, one man reported to have seen the fall and two persons reported having noted the sound it produced. The noise the meteor made was also heard at Big Sandy in Upshur County, about 30 miles north from Troup ; at Arp, in Smith County, about 7 miles northwest from Troup; and at a pump station located about 17 miles southeast from the same point. At Troup Mr. Coupland states that many people heard an unusual and intense noise on the morning that the meteor fell. A weekly newspaper, the Jacksonville Progress, made mention of the fall, from which it has been inferred that the fall was also heard at this place, which lies about 15 miles southwest
from Troup.
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The total know weight is 1020g and the main mass located at Texas State Mus. weighing at 137g, making this meteorite hard to acquire.
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