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A Nininger Moment

In the 1920's Harvey Nininger was a professor at McPherson College
teaching biology but he also taught a course in geology. In the middle
of August 1923 he had read an article in the Scientific Monthly by a
professor A. M. Miller from the University of Kentucky on the subject of
meteorites which intrigued him. All during his college years
he had maybe only heard of the field of meteorites discussed but about
once.

He had visited the Field Museum in Chicago seeing the display of
meteorites there and ponder how they could know for sure these were from
out side our planets confines. He thought here was a source of
information that could yield great clues about the solar system and
beyond. At that time astronomers were making no special effort to use
this information and the same could be said for geologists except for
the random falls and finds that were thrown into their laps for study.

On the evening of  November 9th 1923 at McPherson, faculty and students
gather at a chapel for a lecture or other event. At the end of this
event Nininger and fellow professor E.L. Craik walked towards Craik's
house and were chatting. A sudden blazing stream of fire illuminated the
sky lighting up the surrounding landscape and vanished with an equal
suddenness. An event that started Nininger on his crusade to find out
more about the rare events and launched his effort to unravel those
mysteries the rest of his life.

Source: Find A Falling Star

--AL

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