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Nininger Moment #19
Success And Failures Hunting Meteorites
Along with many new found meteorite finds were hundreds of
failures that came with the success of meteorite hunting. Nininger
stated that with the discovery of new meteorites came the glamour in
the minds of many persons that sat on the sidelines watching his
adventures. Nininger often had offers from people to help in his
quests from both friends and acquaintances. Nininger stated that his
success rate seem better than they really were from the stand point
of going out and hunting down the many leads he was presented with.
Many times a backer (investor) of a lead would not be rewarded with
a return on his money.
Meteorite finds have been more rare than discovery of comets in the
sky. Consequently any new meteorite find was often considered a news
worthy event by the press. However the many fruitless efforts that
plagued his days were not so well known. Nininger stated that they
never attempted to keep the failures secret, but the newsmen didn't
deem them something to publish. Nininger was also not anxious to
have each and every failure publicized as they out numbered the
finds by many times, the successes were far and few between the
failures.
Nininger always warned his investors of the chance that no rewards
would come about when he check out a lead. Nininger's proposition
was they would provide the cash outlay for the trip (often he would
check out several leads at a time to make his efforts have a better
chance), he would provide the knowledge and time to track the leads
down. Any finds were divided up 50/50 between the investor and
Nininger.
Having people invest in his quest for new meteorites was an
important part of Nininger's efforts, especially in the early days
of his enterprise to track down leads. Although he often came up
empty handed an investor who had faith and invested several times
was often reward sooner or later as Nininger tracked down his leads.
As he became better at the effort he was able to better judge which
leads would pan out and which wouldn't. Checking out multiple leads
was always economically wise and often lead to other leads and
sooner or later new finds.
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. Source:
Find A Falling Star
--AL Mitterling
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