Nininger Moments

In America Nininger noted that it was the village of Weston Connecticut that was first to realize a fall in the New England area and at a time when knowledge traveled slow and new ideas took time to be accepted. On the December Morning a Judge Wheeler witnessed the fall

A number of lessons that Nininger learned in the beginning of his quest for finding meteorites taught him early on that a program of hunting down meteorites would be a rewarding but difficult endeavor. In one of the early chapters of Find a Falling Star, at the beginning of each

Besides Hunting for meteorites and his growing program of recovery, Nininger had a passion and a dream that there would sooner or later be an area of science of meteorites. His first efforts talking to a number universities, colleges, institutions, and museums that some sort of a program should be

Often turning his travels, letters from various people, and talking to farmers, ranchers and many other sources, Nininger would run into stories about where a meteorite was thought to exist if he would only go and check it out. Early on he often would make special effort to check out

One of the many letters Nininger received was one dated August 1931 from Saskatehewa, Canada. A meteorite was said to have been found in a field near the city of Springwater. This meteorite was of unique interest as only eleven others had been found in North America and none had

Since there is a current discussion on the meteorite list of where the Nininger Collection is currently at, I thought it would be appropriate to generate this Nininger Moment. From the 1920’s to the late 1950’s Nininger had hunted meteorites and amassed a collection second to none. Hundreds of meteorites

With the sale of the first part of the Nininger Collection the Niningers for the first time in thirty five years were able to pay off debts, their mortgage, and go on a cruise. Nininger had carefully filed away many letters from people that had meteorite related stories that he

One of the largest and best meteorites might have gone undiscovered in not for Nininger’s effort and that of his friend John A. Lednicky. Only 2 other Philippine specimens had been found prior to the Bondoc find. It started when Nininger and Addie were on their 5 month long tour

Harvey Nininger Meteorite Hunter Apply your mind to at least one problem which has never been solved, which in general is considered impossible of solution, but which, being solved would benefit humanity. Do with your life something that has never been done, but which you feel needs doing. From the