[meteorite-list] Meteorites of the AMM

From: fcressy <fcressy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:07 2004
Message-ID: <001001c3508b$86f22c00$b26a1e43_at_g10fb>

Hello Peter and all,

Got most of the names of Nininger's meteorites, either from Find a Falling
Star (FAFS) or the Catelog of Meteorites(COM). Need help and/or verification
for numbers 5, 13, 15 and 21. A list follows:

 1. Baxter, 1916, Stone County, MO. (COM)
 2. Kilbourne, 1911, Columbia County, WI (COM)
 3. Branau, 1847, Czech Republic (Bohemia , p. 102, FAFS)
 4. Melrose(a), Found 1933, Curry County, New Mexico (p. 71, FAFS)
 5. probably Canyon Diablo (logical guess)
 6. Canyon Diablo
 7. Canyon Diablo (Camp Verde piece) (p. 8, FAFS)
 8. probably Plainview (1917), Hale County, TX 700kg.
 9. Johnstown, 1924, Weld County, CO (COM)
10. Pena Blanca Springs, 8-1946, Brewster County, TX (COM)
11. Holbrook, Navajo County, AZ
12. Toluca (p.29, FAFS)
13. ?????
14. Eaton, 1931, Colorado (p. 49-53, FAFS)
15. Toluca????? Guess
16. Hugoton, Kansas (749#) and Morland, Kansas (600#) (FAFS)
17. Miami, 1937 Roberts County, TZ (p. 117, FAFS)
18. Morland, 1890, Graham County, TX (p. 113, FAFS)
19. Arispe, 1896, Sonora, Mexico (p. 163, FAFS)
20. Plainview (1917), Hale County, TX (p. 94, FAFS)
21. ??????Couldn't find this but found a Covert stone covered a pickle
      barrel for 25 years ;-)
22. Canyon Diablo

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Marmet <p.marmet_at_dplanet.ch>
To: list <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:53 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorites of the AMM


> Hello list,
> in a booklet I found a leaflet of the American Meteorite Museum
> printed in 1946/47. Here Dr.H.H.Nininger tells his visitors
> what they can expect to see : Among many others - 22 famous meteorites;
> but he does not mention the names of these meteorites and I don't have
> the answers myself, so I thought it might be funny/interesting -
> as a kind of test/challenge for some of you - to name those meteorites.
> Here are the descriptions of the meteorites you could see in 1946/47
> visiting
> the AMM:
>
> 1. A meteorite that fell through a house roof in Missouri during World
> War I.
>
> 2. A portion of another that fell through a barn in Wisconsin five years
> earlier.
>
> 3. Still another that crashed through a bedroom where two children were
> asleep.
>
> 4. The only gold-bearing meteorite in America.
>
> 5. Diamonds in meteorites.
>
> 6. The largest mass ever found in connection with the world's greatest
> meteorite crater.
>
> 7. A meteorite that was excavated in an encient ruin of the
> cliff-dwellers. It was found wrapped in feather cloth and enclosed in a
> stone cyst.
>
> 8. The world's largest known shower of stony meteorites-in Texas.
>
> 9. Stones from a shower which almost broke up a burial service near
> Denver, Colo., in 1924.
>
> 10. Portions of recent falls-one as late as August, 1946.
>
> 11. 2000 stones which fell near Holbrook, Arizona, in 1912.
>
> 12. An implement fashioned from a meteorite by a Mexican blacksmith.
>
> 13. An Indian axe made from a meteorite- found in a ruin in New Mexico.
>
> 14. The only known copper meteorite in the world.
>
> 15. A group of meteorite hammer-stones from Central Mexico.
>
> 16. Two of the largest stony meteorites ever discovered.
>
> 17. A meteorite that was found doing service as a "deadman" in a fence
> on a ranch in Texas.
>
> 18. Another one which did similar service in Kansas.
>
> 19. A meteorite which served as an anvil on a Mexican hacienda for 25
> years.
>
> 20. A meteorite which served as a weight in a pork barrel for 23 years.
>
> 21. Another which was used on a kraut barrel for 23 years.
>
> 22. Several tons of meteorites gathered from the vicinity of the famous
> Arizona crater.
>
>
> P.S: I like # 1 to 3 (Greetings from PF ;-))
>
> Peter Marmet, Bern
>
>
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