[meteorite-list] NPA 10-15-1941 Nininger Finds Tiny Holbrook Meteorites

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Oct 27 10:21:05 2004
Message-ID: <BAY4-F17t7yiGh05YFR0002095d_at_hotmail.com>

Paper: Hopewell Herald
City: Hopewell, New Jersey
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 1941
Page: 3

Discover Tiniest Meteorites

     Discovery of the three tiniest meteorites on record, with a total
weight of less than a tenth of a gram, has been claimed by three western
scientists.
     Making the announcement were Dr. Frederick C. Leonard, professor of
astronomy at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Dr. and Mrs.
H. H. Nininger of the Colorado Museum of Natural History.
     The minute meteorites were found as the result of dragging alnico
magnets through a number of ant hills near Holbrook, Ariz.
     In the process evidence were discovered that falling meteorites are
accompanied usually by showers of meteoritic dust and sand-like particles,
which, according to the scientists, may mark the beginning of a "new and
important" phase in the study of meteorites.

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Clear Skies,
Wichita, Kansas
Mark Bostick
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