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

From: walter branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:47 2004
Message-ID: <000301c2e829$bec3c780$63cf9f44_at_l1s2m3>

Mark and Michael,

I am curious as well. I don't remember Nininger
mentioning this in any published work (not that
I have read them all, mind you).

-Walter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
To: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector_at_msn.com>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NP Article, Meteorite Hits Man, Nininger


> 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).
> >
> > www.MeteoriteArticles.com
> >
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> Adolf Hitler
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