[meteorite-list] Happy birthday to the Giants

From: almitt2 at localnet.com <almitt2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 01:54:22 -0500
Message-ID: <20150219015422.r0qr30oluq88c444_at_webmail.localnet.com>

Hi Frank and all,

Nininger was involved in each of these. The Norton County Aubrite was
purchased (and dug up) by Lincoln LaPaz after he was able to out bid
Nininger on it. A sore spot for years to come between the men.

Both impressive meteorites.

--AL Mitterling

Quoting Frank Cressy via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>:

> February 17 and 18 are the birthdays of the two largest meteorites to
> fall in the US. On February 17, 1930 the Paragould meteorite fell in
> the northeastern corner of Arkansas. The 820 pound stone recovered
> from the fall was the largest meteorite recovered from a witnessed
> fall in the US to that time.
>
> Eighteen years later, on February 18, 1948, the Norton County aubrite
> fell near the Kansas-Nebraska border. The 2360 pound main mass was
> found on July 3 and later recovered from a 10 foot deep hole. It
> remains the largest stone meteorite seen to fall in the US and the
> second largest largest fall in the world after the Jilin, China
> meteorite that fell on March 8, 1976.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank
>
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