Ness County, L6

Ness County is a fairly old, but well-distributed meteorite, originally discovered in 1897.  Many institutions possess specimens, but few have been traded into private collections.  This stone was a lucky acquisition from an old collection.  From Farrington’s 1915 Catalogue of the Meteorites of North America:
123From that description, it is clear that at least a few different meteorites are likely called Ness County.  I find it unlikely that such a fresh meteorite as is pictured below could possibly be paired with the crustless, weathered mass resembling a marcasite nodule that was described by Ward in 1899.  Institutional specimens should be examined to see what exactly is going on.

This stone weighs 96.3 grams and bears Nininger number – 87.42.  The label of this stone is a little unusual; it is an American Meteorite Laboratory (AML) label that has an older Nininger collection number, not a Huss number.  I believe this corresponds to the period when Nininger worked for the Denver Museum of Natural History.  Between roughly 1929 and 1940, the AML was located at an address in Palmer, Colorado, and on 635 Fillmore Street in Denver.

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