Hi Mark, Pierre-Marie, list
As I just wrote to Pierre-Marie a few minutes ago, I have in my colelction a 80.51 g Morland end section (available for Pierre-Marie photographic archives) and I told him it carries the numbers (on label) "2801, 1294 (Buddhue coll.) and "M 334.1" (Monnig).
Mark confirmed below that "Nininger numbered specimen carry the collection number "282", followed by a decimal and numbers or a letter/letters, depending on specimen".
Upon checking, indeed, my specimen also carries the number 282.44 painted on it.
This confirms its early belonging to the Nininger series.Hope this helps Pierre-Marie for his archives.
But my next question here is: what is the real chronology of these labels?
In other words, believeing the eventual belonging of the specimen to TCU (Monnig) from where I got it, I could guess that, according to Mark's historical archives, my specimen probably first belonged to Nininger and then went to Buddhue collection.
Mark, can you confirm that chronology ? (I love knowing the historical wandering of a specimen that eventually landed in my collection...these specimens have much to tell, when displayed.
Just to say that Mark is doing, since a long time, such a great job, of general interest to all future collectors.
Cheers,
Zelimir
A 09:06 24/03/05 -0600, vous avez écrit : Hello Pierre and list,
Pierre wrote, "Does everyone have the history of the find of Morland meteorite ? Maybe Mark Bostick can help as a specialist of Kansas meteorites?"
Thanks for your kind note. I am not for sure if I qualify as a specialist yet, perhaps, a historian with good research skills.
Morland, was the third meteorite over 500 pounds found in Western Kansas.
This meteorite was discovered by Mr. Sam Hisey, seven miles east of Morland, Graham County, Kansas during June 1935. While working a farm field, Hisey had worked for several years, his lister stuck the stone and pulled it from the ground. The meteorite came to light through the efforts of Harvey H.Nininger. After giving a lecture in Sharon Springs, Kansas around 1933, Nininger met a local Indian arrowhead collector and general "rock hound", R. A. Dollarhide. Dollarhide had sent several suspected meteorite samples into Nininger, but none proved to be "rites". However in 1935, Dollarhide sent Nininger a sample, that Nininger was sure was a meteorite. Dollarhide had reportedly removed the sample from a large stone. Nininger, being broke, was able to get money from Denver businessman and meteorite collector Dean Gillespie, who funded the trip and recovery for half interest in what Nininger recovered. This was something Dollarhide had done with Nininger several times in the past.
In "Find a Falling Star" Nininger writes, "We went out to the field and what I saw there set my nerves tingling. A mass that weighed more than 600 pounds had been pried out of the soil. It had been broken in three pieces, probley at the time of fall, but they could plainly be fitted back together.
Moreland turned out to be the world's eight largest aerolite."
When Hisey found the meteorite, a large unusual stone in a field he was familiar with, his curiosity was raised. Hisey brought the meteorite "into town" to Moreland, where he sought the advise of Dollarhide. The meteorite was found in four pieces, not three. A fifth stone was found on a neighboring farm, and Nininger later found six fragments himself that fit together into a three pound stone.
Nininger believed the larger stone was "flight-marked". Nininger wrote, "...but appear wind-swept, bearing striations which run almost at right angles to the two broad faces of the stone. The two large planes lie nearly parallel, about 10 to 13 inches apart." Nininger went on to note that the meteorite had "...much less pitting and other frictional sculpting..." then the Hugoton meteorite.
Nininger further notes, "The finding of the Hugton and Morland stones so near the surface, both of them in the Great Plains region, where fluviatile erosion goes no at a minimum rate, suggest an interesting problem regarding the effectiveness of wind as an agent of gradation in this region." The Paragould meteorite, a 600 pound stone, and similar sized meteorite, buried itself eight feet in the soil.
I would note, I think Nininger was possibly wrong on the meteorite having broken when it hit the ground. This seems to be a common thought on old finds that fit back together. I think regions, such as Gold Basin, has showed up weathering, is the most acting agent in making "puzzle" meteorites.
The meteorite was classified as an ordinary chondrite H5, by Brian Mason in 1966. Nininger numbered specimen carry the collection number "282", followed by a decimal and numbers or a letter/letters, depending on specimen.
Extra Credit:
The lister was the first significant new tillage tool introduced by Prairie-Plains region and developed there. It was used early for corn production and later adapted to the culture of wheat. For wheat the listing ideas appeared directly in two forms, the lister drill and listing as a substitute for plowing. It probably inspired part a third procedure, as yet only partially developed, subsurface cultivation. The lister may be described as a double plow with a divided moldboard, splitting the slice and turning half each way.
Clear Skies, Mark Bostick
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