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@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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