[meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list: Puente-Ladron

2005-12-18 Thread bernd . pauli
Charlie wrote: "Now if I could just find my copy, I could read about it." Hi Charlie and List, .. and just in case you don't :-) MARVIN U.B. (1993) The Puente-Ladron chondrite (Meteoritics 28-3, 1993, 269-270): In the October, 1944, issue of the Contributions, Nininger announced his discov

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list

2005-12-18 Thread Charlie Devine
I want to thank Robert Woolard for answering my question regarding the only previously unknown meteorite actually field collected by Nininger. It was Puente-Ladron, an L chondrite of 7.673 grams which Nininger picked up near a bridge over the Puerco River, 10 miles from Ladron Peak, in Socorro Co,

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list

2005-12-18 Thread Charlie Devine
Al, I can't find my copy of "Find a Falling Star" :-( But in that book Nininger describes the one and only time he, purely by chance, surface collected a previously unknown meteorite. As I recall, it was a very small chondrite. If you can find that passage, or if someone else can find where he

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list

2005-12-17 Thread dfreeman
Dear All, "Find a Falling Star" gets me all weepy! Dave F. AL Mitterling wrote: Greetings Robert and all, Robert Matson wrote: Hi All, I've been spending some spare time compiling a list of prolific meteorite finders (primarily extracting all finders' names from Meteoritical Bulletins), a

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list

2005-12-17 Thread AL Mitterling
Greetings Robert and all, Robert Matson wrote: Hi All, I've been spending some spare time compiling a list of prolific meteorite finders (primarily extracting all finders' names from Meteoritical Bulletins), and was wondering if anyone had a list of meteorites found by Nininger (since his heyd

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list

2005-12-16 Thread Martin Altmann
ue Book on the knees. Best! Martin - Original Message - From: "Matson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 9:47 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list > Hi All, > > I've been spending some spare time compiling

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list

2005-12-16 Thread MexicoDoug
Rob M. writes: >Of course, any such list that I can compile will be very incomplete >since some of the most prolific finders are nameless nomads from >Northwest Africa, the dozens of Antarctic finders working as teams, >and anonymous hunters searching in Libya, Egypt, Oman and other hot >deser

[meteorite-list] Meteorite finder list

2005-12-16 Thread Matson, Robert
Hi All, I've been spending some spare time compiling a list of prolific meteorite finders (primarily extracting all finders' names from Meteoritical Bulletins), and was wondering if anyone had a list of meteorites found by Nininger (since his heydays predate the Bulletins)? His influence is certa