[meteorite-list] Re: Nininger Moment #8

From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:46 2004
Message-ID: <3E690354.91B471E1_at_kconline.com>

Hi Bernd, Rob and all,

Curiously Nininger even makes mention of Mary, Franks wife and a note wrote to them
after the wife's death from their daughter (but doesn't site the name of the
daughter). Could the Sky and Tel article been siting the Space Rocks and Buffalo Grass
and which one is right??

--AL

Bernd Pauli HD wrote:

>
> Hello All,
>
> Here is an excerpt from a S&T article:
>
> "The first person to recognize these as meteorites was Eliza
> Kimberly, who moved to a farm there in 1885 with her new
> husband, Frank. When she was a girl, her schoolteacher had
> shown her class a meteorite that had fallen at Estherville, Iowa."
>
> PECK ELLIS (1979) The Fate of a Kansas Meteorite
> Crater (Sky & Telescope, August 1979, pp. 126-128).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernd
Received on Fri 07 Mar 2003 03:38:44 PM PST