[meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list

From: dfreeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Dec 17 17:27:22 2005
Message-ID: <43A490C2.9010902_at_fascination.com>

Dear All,
"Find a Falling Star" gets me all weepy!
Dave F.

AL Mitterling wrote:

> Greetings Robert and all,
>
> Robert Matson wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been spending some spare time compiling a list of prolific
>> meteorite
>> finders (primarily extracting all finders' names from Meteoritical
>> Bulletins), and was wondering if anyone had a list of meteorites
>> found by Nininger (since his heydays predate the Bulletins)? His
>> influence is certainly responsible for hundreds of meteorites being
>> recovered from the grain belt, but I haven't been able to find a list
>> of meteorites he actually found himself.
>
>
> Perhaps part of the answer lies here in a part of a Nininger Moment I
> generated. It might help you be selective in where you might hunt for
> the specimens recovered by Nininger. Please note that Addie Nininger
> and Harvey kept an excellent journal on all the field work they did.
> This was the beginning of the Meteoritical Bulletins and were turned
> over to be used later on and are now a part of those.
>
> From Nininger Moment #9
>
> Nininger brought to light over 222 previously unknown falls, that
> added up to over 2,000 individual meteorites during this time frame of
> hunting. No doubt that many other new falls were found as an indirect
> result of his program to other institutions, collectors and
> scientists. A Dr. Flecter Watson of Harvard once wrote in his book "
> Between The Planets" Published in 1941 that Nininger was accounting
> for half of all the discoveries in the world at that time. In 1937
> thirty one new discoveries were tabulated to have been found due to
> Nininger's efforts. More than three times the amount found in any
> three years previous for the entire world. For all of the finds there
> were also the pseudo meteorite finds that totaled some 35,000
> specimens that yielded nothing. Nininger figured he had published over
> 150 different papers, four books and two booklets and passed out over
> 200,000 free leaflets in his effort to bring about new meteorite finds
> and information.
>
>
> From "Find a Falling Star"
>
> Best!
>
> --AL Mitterling
> Mitterling Meteorites
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