[meteorite-list] Arizona Daily Sun Nininger Moves to Crater Post 2

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Arizona Daily Sun
City: Flagstaff, Arizona
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 1946
Page: 1 (of 8)

ARIZONA NOW HAS BIG METEORITE COLLECTION
(By The SUN’S Own Service)

     METEOR CRATER – More than 15,000 pounds of meteorites, collected all 
over the world, have arrived here in two big vans and will be placed on 
display at the American Meteorite Museum between Flagstaff and Winslow on 
Highway 66, Dr. H. H. Nininger said here Tuesday morning.
      The museum will be housed in the building formerly known as “meteor 
crater observatory.”
     Dr. Nininger, one of the world’s outstanding experts on meteorite, said 
that the huge collection was moved to the new museum from Denver.  He 
collected most of the items over a period of 21 years, some by exchange from 
other nations.
      The largest weighs 1-106 pounds, and is from Meteor Crater it self, 
belonging to the Barringer collection and being in the American Meteorite 
collection on loan.
     Display cases will be arranged in the near future, and the opening is 
expected by October 15.
     “Arrival of our big collection of meteorites at the museum is the 
greatest single step toward our goal of establishing a first class museum 
and laboratory for research on meteorites,” Dr. Nininger said.
     One item came from Ensisheim, Alsaca-Lorraine, and was seen to strike 
the ground in 1492. It was taken to a church in the neighborhood and kept 
there on display until recent years.

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Paper: Arizona Daily Sun
City: Flagstaff, Arizona
Date: Thursday, October 24, 1946
Page: 2 (of 8)

Sunday ‘Flagstaff Day’ At Meteorite Museum
(By The SUN’S Own Service)

     METEOR CRATER – Sunday will be “Flagstaff Day” at the American 
Meteorite Museum, formerly Meteor Crater observatory on Highway 66 between 
Flagstaff and Winslow, Dr. H. H. Nininger, director, said today.
     Two special lectures will be given, one at 3 p.m., the other at 4 p.m.
     The museum was only recently opened will a collection of more than 15 
tons of meteorites collected from all over the world.

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