Hello Steve and List, Phil first asked: The museum I work at has a meteorite with a specimen number of 92.1157 painted on it, the card with it states it is a stony iron from Kansas. It looks like an chondrite to me. No photo available. Any ideas on the ID number? Steve Schoner kind responded: The number indicates a Nininger collection piece...Plainview, Texas. Nininger usually painted a white area on the specimen then wrote in inda ink the number. #92 is for Plainview, TX and .1157 is the 1,157th example that he sold or found from this site. That is pretty cool. The reason I say this is because I recently purchased a plainview meteorite. On it is a number that neither I or the seller could identify. 92.387 I figured it was a collector number, the 387th stone that some collector purchased in 1992. A pratice I've heard is common. This Plainview weighs 830 grams and is also oriented with almost a complete roll over rim on the back side. Thanks for letting me know it was a Ninninger number. I had no ideal. I have photos of this stone in my photo gallery at the following link... I'm debating going to Munich so I would be willing to entertain offers for the stone (think cheaper then a non-ninninger, non-oriented Plainview). Mark Bostick Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorite articles. |
