Re: [meteorite-list] Happy birthday to the Giants
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 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Happy birthday to the Giants
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 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Happy birthday to the Giants
And Norton is still the world's largest achondrite. A miracle that it stayed together in the 1 ton mass, most of the aubrite is very friable, except the nice sized enstatite crystals thoughout. They just don't make falls like the used to! Carl Agee * Carl B. Agee Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences MSC03 2050 University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131-1126 Tel: (505) 750-7172 Fax: (505) 277-3577 Email: a...@unm.edu http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/ On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Frank Cressy via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote: 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 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
