Paragould Meteorite
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The Paragould Meteorite at 16 by 41 inches (406 by 1041 mm) and weighs 816 pounds (370 kg) is the third-largest meteorite ever recovered in North America. It fell to Earth at approximately 4:08 a.m. on February 17, 1930. It was discovered by W.H. Hodges in an 8 foot (2 m) hole on his farm a few miles southwest of Finch, Arkansas, near Paragould. It was then purchased by Harvey Nininger, who later sold it to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. It has been on loan to the Arkansas-Oklahoma Center for Space and Planetary Science since November 2003, and is on display in Mullins Library, at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
The Old Woman Meteorite[1] is the second largest found in North America; the Willamette Meteorite is largest.
