Re: [meteorite-list] Lincoln La Paz, basic bio

[MARK BOSTICK]

Hello Walter and list,   Walter wrote:   "Seems like I was talking with someone about Canyon Diablo once, maybe it was Marvin Kilgore, and I thought the person I was talking to told me that there was no love lost between La Paz and Nininger.  Do you know anything about this?"     It is fair to say that Nininger and La Paz, both born in Kansas....were very bitter towards each other.  La Paz taking the classic anti-dealer thinking and Nininger thinking more along the line of then equals....work wise.    Their relationship reached it's limits when La Paz stumbled upon the main mass of Norton County....which should be a Nebraska Meteorite in my opinion...and Nininger was down in the hole already.  Nininger had used some of La Paz's information and La Paz was not happy at all.  The farmer decided to auction the meteorite and La Paz (the University of New Mexico) won with the help of funds from Nebraska University.  La Paz considered the winning bid and victory for science.   Later when Nininger was studying surface features of meteorites, Nininger requested some sample on loan from La Paz.  As the University of New Mexico's goals was to help meteorite science.  La Paz made up a request form that basically said if you sell meteorites for a living, the University would not loan you any meteorites.    While it is easy to understand each person's position it is a shame they could not work more together.  Both helped our loved science very much.     Mark