Greetings,
Harvey Nininger who witnessed the November 9th 1923 super bright meteor fall
at McPherson, College, made his eye witness notes and went on to contact
newspapers, witnesses on each side of the fall. While this particular use of
triangulation did not yield the actual meteorite from the fall withnessed,
it did result in several other meteorites being found.
Harvey used this method many times. He used it with the Norton County fall I
believe and was able to locate that meteorite with triangulation. He was
standing on the meteorite in it's pit when Lincoln Lapaz and his group
walked over to the site.
I'll have to look up and try to put together various meteorites that
Nininger found using this method.
Best!
--AL Mitterling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ross" <[email protected]>
To: "Meteorite List List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Triangulation
Not until the 1970's? Really? I understand that we now have great modern
advantages for accurate triangulation, with sky-cams, radar data, and the
like. And granted, even with all of this technology, strewn fields are
often difficult to pinpoint today. But it's hard to believe that it took
over 150 years after general scientific acceptance of the
fireball/meteorite connection for somebody to start accurately tracking
these suckers.
Perhaps I could refine the question to help narrow the possible
contenders. Who was the first person to recover meteorites from a
witnessed fall based on triangulation calcualtions *without the benefit of
anecdotal information or finds by local residents (apart from fireball
reports)*?
-Tocayo
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ross" <[email protected]>
To: "Meteorite List List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Triangulation
Not until the 1970's? Really? I understand that we now have great modern
advantages for accurate triangulation, with sky-cams, radar data, and the
like. And granted, even with all of this technology, strewn fields are
often difficult to pinpoint today. But it's hard to believe that it took
over 150 years after general scientific acceptance of the
fireball/meteorite connection for somebody to start accurately tracking
these suckers.
Perhaps I could refine the question to help narrow the possible
contenders. Who was the first person to recover meteorites from a
witnessed fall based on triangulation calcualtions *without the benefit of
anecdotal information or finds by local residents (apart from fireball
reports)*?
-Tocayo
[email protected]
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