Mark Bowling
12/13/2016 7:58:16 AM |
Handsome stone! I love the coloration and texture.
Very interesting Doug... Are these still being recovered today? |
MexicoDoug
12/13/2016 12:39:08 AM |
Hi Al, to be exact, cowpuncher Will Allen gave a vague account about a flash of light and big ruckus by the horses in his corral, reputedly from a fireball in Spring, 1903. He dug an approx 25 pound stone out of a hole in the packed trodden soil within the corral and put the stone apparently in the feed trough you mention ... though according to the account it didn't hit it but rather fell straight downfield within the corral 3-4 feet from the corral fence without striking it. the Around 2 years later new owners of the land recovered the stone and 30 years later Monnig got wind of the ambiguous account. It was not certain that the feed trough stone was from Plainview though thought likely. Probably it is at TCU and can be analyzed if someone makes the effort if the mystery is still pending. |
AL Mitterling
12/12/2016 7:38:48 PM |
Greetings,
I don't have the information handy, but it is thought that a fall that hit a horse troff might have been a part of the Plaineview fall. So if that is the case, we might have details (sort of) of the Plainview Fall. |
John Divelbiss
12/9/2016 3:25:55 PM |
Plainview H5 first found in 1917...this meteorite and the timing of the finds into the 1930's reminds of our daily losses of men and woman from the WWII era. Astronaut John Glenn being most recent. And another old-timer passing on from a meteorite collector's standpoint is the loss of Larry Sloan. I met Larry in person in 2004 at Tucson, we had emailed each other before, and he knew of me right away when we met and he even guessed where I was from. Turns out his wife was from Punxsutawney PA area, and so am I. What a great guy and a loss to all those who knew him. |
MexicoDoug
12/9/2016 7:40:59 AM |
Thanks Herbert! Plainview -the quintessential Nininger action classic that gave him a great deal of trading material in the good old days he was young and beginning his crush on fieldwork in meteorites! How exciting it must be to hold this stone and listen to the bygone stories it can whisper of its long journey from space to you! |
Dr. Mike Reynolds
12/9/2016 5:53:28 AM |
Got to love the Nininger collection numbered specimens! Very special... |
Bernd Pauli
12/9/2016 5:23:02 AM |
Amazing individual, excellent provenance! |
Jarkko Kettunen
12/9/2016 1:08:32 AM |
Nice! |
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