[meteorite-list] Meteor Crater Study Kit by Nininger

[Thomas Webb]

Hi Walter and list,
I have had several of these kits and still have a few.
 It really is a neat item, containing the booklet "A
Comet Strikes the Earth" along with an oxidized
fragment of Canyon Diablo inserted directly into the
book; a fragment of the meteorite on an explanatory
card; 2 impactites on another card with description;
and a little folder with up to 50 of the condensed
nickel-iron spherules thought to make up the missing
mass of the Canyon Diablo meteorite.
All of this is housed in a nice white box labeled
Meteorite Crater Study Kit and the address of the 
"American Meteorite Laboratory" in Denver.  
The kits were put together by Nininger and his
son-in-law Glenn Huss and were sold at the American
Meteorite Laboratory which Huss set up after the
museum had been closed.  This was about 1960.  A few
of these have survived in pristine condition, but very
few.
My best,
Thomas

--- Walter Branch <branchw at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I received today one of Niningers Meteorite Crater
> Study Kits.
> This is the neatest thing and it is in pristine
> looks-like-it-has-
> never-been-opened condition.
> 
> The only date I could find was in the Comet Strikes
> the Earth
> book; 1942 and 1969.
> 
> Does anyone have any info on these?  When they were
> produced?  
> How many?  Were they sold at the museum?
> 
> Any information would be appreciated.
> 
> -Walter
> 
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