[meteorite-list] NP Article, 11-1950 Nininger, Meteor Crater Hunt Futile
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:40 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV975b6KZmcK800001cc1_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C319BD.837370C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Title: Reno Gazette =20 City: Reno, Nevada =20 Date: Thursday, November 16, 1950 Page: 25 Meteorite Hunt Said Futile WINSLOW, Ariz., (AP) - Search for the giant meteorite that fell in northe= rn Arizona 20,000 to 50,000 years ago can be abandoned, Dr. H. H. Nininge= r, noted authority on meteorites, believes. The scientist, who owns the m= eteor crater museum near here, said no huge meteorite exists. He beleives= it exploded after striking the ground leaving no single mass of material= . For years scientists have been walking around, over and in the crater loo= king for the meteor, and, he said, all the while they were actually "walk= ing on it" in the form of metallic dust scattered over the area. His find= ing is based on a study of the minute meteoric fragments found in and for= 100 miles around the 4,150-foot crater. "These little fragments, some of them only fine dust, are spherical," he = said. "This indicates they condensed from vapor - which in turn would ind= icate the meteorite exploded creating the crater." Dr. Nininger said the mass that struck the earth undoubtedly weighed seve= ral thousand tons, but he discounted previous beliefs it may have been ne= arly a mile in diameter. His estimate is closer to 150 feet. A recently translated paper on a meteor that fell in Siberia in 1947 indi= cates the same thing happened there, Dr. Nininger said, and added any met= eorite more than 10 feet in diameter would probably exploded upon strikin= g the earth. Meteor crater is a major tourist attraction in northern Arizona. Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor= and meteorite articles. ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C319BD.837370C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><B><FONT size=3D= 1> <P>Title: Reno Gazette </P> <P>City: Reno, Nevada </P> <P>Date: Thursd= ay, November 16, 1950</P> <P>Page: 25</P> <P> </P></B> <P>Meteorite = Hunt Said Futile</P> <P> </P> <P>WINSLOW, Ariz., (AP) - Search for t= he giant meteorite that fell in northern Arizona 20,000 to 50,000 years a= go can be abandoned, Dr. H. H. Nininger, noted authority on meteorites, b= elieves. The scientist, who owns the meteor crater museum near here, said= no huge meteorite exists. He beleives it exploded after striking the gro= und leaving no single mass of material.</P> <P>For years scientists have = been walking around, over and in the crater looking for the meteor, and, = he said, all the while they were actually "walking on it" in the form of = metallic dust scattered over the area. His finding is based on a study of= the minute meteoric fragments found in and for 100 miles around the 4,15= 0-foot crater.</P> <P>"These little fragments, some of them only fine dus= t, are spherical," he said. "This indicates they condensed from vapor - w= hich in turn would indicate the meteorite exploded creating the crater."<= BR>Dr. Nininger said the mass that struck the earth undoubtedly weighed s= everal thousand tons, but he discounted previous beliefs it may have been= nearly a mile in diameter. His estimate is closer to 150 feet.</P> <P>A = recently translated paper on a meteor that fell in Siberia in 1947 indica= tes the same thing happened there, Dr. Nininger said, and added any meteo= rite more than 10 feet in diameter would probably exploded upon striking = the earth.</P> <P>Meteor crater is a major tourist attraction in northern= Arizona.</P></FONT><BR><BR>Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a fr= ee on-line archive of meteor and meteorite articles.</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0000_01C319BD.837370C0-- Received on Wed 14 May 2003 03:07:04 AM PDT |
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