Flax Creek Meteorite
Flax Creek Meteorite
Kentucky Geological Survey scientists used an assortment of KGS laboratory's analytical instruments to confirm the identity of two meteorites recently discovered in Kentucky. The meteorites are the first to be found in the Commonwealth since 1990. Quade Mott discovered the newly named "Handys Bend" meteorite on a farm near Wilmore, Kentucky in July of 2021. The "Flax Creek" meteorite was unearthed by Johnathan Baldwin nearly 8 months later near Crab Orchard, Kentucky. The confirmation of these meteorites brings the total number of Kentucky meteorites to 29. Flax Creek Genetic Classification: IAB was the only group to plot coherently with Flax Creek across the entirety of chemical data, with the lone exception of the Au v. Cr plot (Figure 36). That graph shows the low-Au Flax Creek sample plotting between the low-Cr IAB subgroup and the high-Cr IIICD subgroup. This relationship may result from the significant chemical heterogeneity among IAB irons and the sig...
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