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Potter
Ordinary chondrite (L6)
Found in 1941
Cheyenne County, Nebraska, USA

'One hot, windy summer day I sat down at a lunch counter in Sterling, Colorado [...] (and) laid a small stony meteorite beside my water glass [...]. (A cattle truck) driver entered and sat down beside me [...] (and) picked up the little meteorite. He examined it briefly and put it down. "Do you know what it is?" I asked him...', (Nininger, 1972). In the rest of this fortuit discussion, Harvey H. Nininger explained to the driver that the rock was a meteorite. By reexamining it, the driver then recalled that his brother-in-law, 100 miles away in Nebraska, might have one of those 'things' in his yard. A few weeks later, the Potter meteorite was recognized. Following Nininger's autobiography (Nininger, 1972), the Potter meteorite was found in 1937, although the official date of find is 1941 as indicated in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database, as well as on labels from the American Meteorite Laboratory.

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