[meteorite-list] Potter: RFS Picture of the Day - January 27, 2007

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:43:20 -0600
Message-ID: <BAY111-F34105E480AC027ACC53E71B3A10_at_phx.gbl>

Darren wrote the following based on Find a Falling Star, pgs. 117 and 118.?

?The Potter, Nebraska meteorite was found by farmer Cecil McKinney when
large
rocks were struck by his tractor. After digging several large masses from
his
field, because of their unusual density he used some of them as weights on
his
disc plow while tilling land until his son-in-law had a chance encounter
with HH
Nininger in a Sterling, Colorado truck stop and quickly recognized that a
small
meteorite Nininger had placed on the counter looked much like the large
stones
on his father-in-law's farm. Samples mailed to Nininger were positively
identified by Nininger who then traveled to the farm and purchased around
260
kilograms of the weathered brecciated L6 meteorite.?

A 1941 newspaper article, which does note the McKinney?s name, something the
Nininger recollection in FAFS does not, has a slightly different story.

http://www.meteoritearticles.com/znp02261941.html

Find a Falling Star was purchased in 1972, and was mostly written by Abbey.
This leads me to believe the newspaper article is likely more correct.

Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
www.meteoritearticles.com
Received on Sat 27 Jan 2007 11:43:20 AM PST