Abstract
ABSTRACTA preliminary account is given in this paper of a record‐breaking meteorite—the Furnas County member of the extraordinary Norton County, Kansas‐Furnas County, Nebraska, achondritic fall of 1948 February 18 (coördinate number = 1000,400). This specimen, discovered on 1948 August 16, is conservatively estimated to weigh 1 metric ton (2200 lbs.). If that estimate is correct, or nearly correct, then the Furnas County stone is by far the largest known aerolite in the world and the largest meteorite of any type ever observed to fall. Several other significant facts concerning this remarkable meteorite are noted and briefly discussed. The giant aerolite was recovered thru the combined efforts of the Institute of Meteoritics of the University of New Mexico and the University of Nebraska State Museum, which have acquired joint ownership of it.
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