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Re: A Nininger Moment
Dear Al, and List;
I really enjoyed the "Nininger Moment"; Could we have more?
Best Regards, Dave Freeman
almitt wrote:
> In the 1920's Harvey Nininger was a professor at McPherson College
> teaching biology but he also taught a course in geology. In the middle
> of August 1923 he had read an article in the Scientific Monthly by a
> professor A. M. Miller from the University of Kentucky on the subject of
> meteorites which intrigued him. All during his college years
> he had maybe only heard of the field of meteorites discussed but about
> once.
>
> He had visited the Field Museum in Chicago seeing the display of
> meteorites there and ponder how they could know for sure these were from
> out side our planets confines. He thought here was a source of
> information that could yield great clues about the solar system and
> beyond. At that time astronomers were making no special effort to use
> this information and the same could be said for geologists except for
> the random falls and finds that were thrown into their laps for study.
>
> On the evening of November 9th 1923 at McPherson, faculty and students
> gather at a chapel for a lecture or other event. At the end of this
> event Nininger and fellow professor E.L. Craik walked towards Craik's
> house and were chatting. A sudden blazing stream of fire illuminated the
> sky lighting up the surrounding landscape and vanished with an equal
> suddenness. An event that started Nininger on his crusade to find out
> more about the rare events and launched his effort to unravel those
> mysteries the rest of his life.
>
> Source: Find A Falling Star
>
> --AL
>
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