[meteorite-list] NP Article, Meteorite Hits Man, Nininger

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:47 2004
Message-ID: <BA936806.4759%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Hi Mark,
        Any idea what fall this was?
        curious Michael


on 3/10/03 10:26 PM, MARK BOSTICK at thebigcollector_at_msn.com wrote:

> Title: Indiana Evening Gazette
> City: Indiana, Pa
> Date: Thursday, December 31, 1953
> Page: 4
>
>
> Meteorite Hits Man's Tin Hat
>
>
> BOSTON (AP) - Meteorites bean someone on earth only once every 350
> years on the average - and now it looks as though one has struck a guy who
> was waring a tin hat!
> This indication of how times are getting over toughter for meteorites
> came out in a talk before the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science,
> whose 120th meeting ends today.
> Dr. H. H. Nininger of the American Meteorite Museum, Sedona, Ariz.,
> reported that a tiny object having all the external earmarks of a meteorite
> had struck a construction working "on his tin hat: after first richocheting
> off a drilling rig.
> At least, said Nininger, that's what the man told him had happened.
> The "beaning" happened several years ago but Nininger made it public today.
> The incident apparently marked a lucky day for Ninger too because he
> tested the object in his laboratory - and he says he feels not only that it
> is an honest-too-goodness meteorite, but that it's something pretty special
> in that line.
> Meteorites, believed to be fragments of an exploded planet or possibly
> two colliding ones, exist in the millions and are of all sizes - but only a
> few ever reach the earth and still fewer are recovered. Some 24 million a
> day are consumed in the atmosphere.
> In case you're worried about getting hit, Dr. Fred L. Whipple of
> Harvard, a regular fireball on the subject of meteorites told a reporter:
> "Meteorites that reach the earth are mostly very small - some as small
> as dust particles - bit a couple have hit the earth that were big as
> apartment houses. Fortunately all the large ones have fallen in
> uninhabitated places.
> "Only one person out of all the people on earth is struck by a
> meteorite, every 350 years on the average. There's one unconfirmed report
> that a monk was killed by one back in the 15th century. Injuries, when they
> have occurred, have been slight."
> Here's the reason Dr. Nininger was so happy about the object he
> studied:
>
> (Mark Bostick Note: Article apparently ends and does not continue the rest
> of the story, perhaps the last line was meant to be earlier in the article).
>
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