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Nininger Moment #1
The Beginning
In
the 1920's Harvey Nininger was a professor at McPherson College teaching
biology but he also taught a course in geology. In the middle of August
1923 he had read an article in the Scientific Monthly by a professor
A. M. Miller from the University of Kentucky on the subject of meteorites
which intrigued him. All during his college years he had maybe only
heard of the field of meteorites discussed but about once.
He had visited the Field Museum in Chicago seeing the display of meteorites
there and ponder how they could know for sure these were from out side
our planets confines. He thought here was a source of information that
could yield great clues about the solar system and beyond. At that time
astronomers were making no special effort to use this information and
the same could be said for geologists except for the random falls and
finds that were thrown into their laps for study.
On the evening of November 9th 1923 at McPherson, faculty and students
gather at a chapel for a lecture or other event. At the end of this
event Nininger and fellow professor E.L. Craik walked towards Craik's
house and were chatting. A sudden blazing stream of fire illuminated
the sky lighting up the surrounding landscape and vanished with an equal
suddenness. An event that started Nininger on his crusade to find out
more about the rare events and launched his effort to unravel those
mysteries the rest of his life.
Source: Find A Falling Star
The Nininger Moments are articles or books written originally by Harvey
Nininger and put into a consolidated form by Al Mitterling. Some of
the items written in the moments might be old out dated material and
the reader is advised to keep this in mind.
--AL Mitterling
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