[meteorite-list] Part II: American David Rittenhouse (Warning - Pre-Chladni)

[Martin Altmann]

Hmm, intersting question.

I don't know, probably that would date in the times of the first camera
networks.
So I would suppose the fall of Innisfree on 5th of Feb 1977, caught by the
Canadian Camera Network.
(Because I heard, that the first stone of Lost City was already discovered
by the locals, when the camera team people arrived).

But in fact, I have no idea :-)
Martin

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Ross
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Pre-Chladni)

Thanks for the fascinating discussion, gentlemen!  A great account of the
rigorous, often slow process that revolutionary new scientific theories must
go through before gaining widespread acceptance.

I have a related question.  Who was the first person to accurately calculate
the trajectories of meteors, and successfully recover meteorites based on
those calculations?  I'm not talking about someone who witnessed a meteor,
and was lucky enough to have stones landing nearby.  In other words, who was
the first systematic meteorite hunter?  Was it Nininger?

- (the other) Doug
doug at dougross.net
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