[meteorite-list] Meteorites of the AMM

From: Peter Marmet <p.marmet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:08 2004
Message-ID: <3F20390B.5A6481A3_at_dplanet.ch>

Hi Frank , Allen and all,

many thanks for your answers.

To #5: Nininger writes in «Our stone-pelted planet» p. 35:
Diamonds in meteorites: Novo-Urei, Canyon Diablo, Magura.

To #13(?): «Our stone-pelted planet» FIG.33 shows a mexican barreta made of
meteoritic iron - but I couldn't find more infos.
(Any connection with #13?)

To #4, Melrose: See Allan Lang's great Meteorite Museum:
http://www.nyrockman.com/museum/melrose-26.4.htm
Someone (Nininger?) wrote on the AMM label: «Contains gold»

Who can help with 13,15 and 21?

Thanks again for all contributions

Peter M.






fcressy wrote:

> 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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