Paper: Council Bluffs Nonpareil City: Council Bluffs, Iowa Date: Sunday, August 22, 1948 Page: 20
University Buys Meteor Fragment
NORTON, Kan., (AP) - The universities of New Mexico and Nebraska have purchased the world's largest anchondritic meteorite. The purchase price was not disclosed.
Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the faculty of New Mexico university annouced Saturday the two universities obtained the specimen in spirited bidding Friday. Dr. H.H. Nininger, director of the American meteorite museum, Winslow, Ariz., was the opposing bidder.
This was the largest of more than 1,000 meteorite fragments recovered from a fall last May 18.
Dr. La Paz said the excavation of the 1,000-pound fragment at the bottom of an eight-foot crater, would be completed late Saturday. It will be sent to the University of New Mexico, he said, where it will be sliced with a diamond bit, with half going to each university.
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