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| 10/01/31 - Members Image of the Month for February |
February's image of the month is up in the Gallery. This month it's an excellent and fresh Bassikounou individual, with a roll over lip, provided by Mark Crawford. Bassikounou is an H5 chondrite which produced a shower of stones in Mauritania on 12th October 2006. I'm currently in need of more submissions for the image of the month, please could members send some of your images in!
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| 10/01/19 - Middlesbrough News Item & Museums Update |
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The Middlesbrough meteorite has made the news this week as it was being scanned by NASA to provide data allowing the next Mars rover to identify potential meteorites. The York Press article here includes an image of this seldom seen, stunningly oriented meteorite. There have also been a few updates to our recently added museums page, including full details of the Ulster Museum collection courtesy of Mike Simms and some updates from David Entwistle. |
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| 09/12/31 - Museums, Articles and Images |
| Three site updates to welcome the New Year! Firstly Kieron Heard has complied a list of public exhibitions of meteorites which can be viewed here. This page will remain a work in progress for the time being, if you have any additional information or images to add please contact us via the usual methods. If you would like to know of collections in your local area the page is a must-read. On the main menu to the left of this page you will now see an entry for "Publications". This page includes our Flowlines journal and has been expanded to include links to articles written by our members. There are currently three articles, further submissions are (as always) welcome. Lastly the Image Of The Month for January 2010 is uploaded, a small Barwell fragment with an interesting inclusion.
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| 09/12/04 - ANSMET 2009-2010 |
The 2009-2010 Antarctic search for meteorites has begun: "The 2009-10 team arrived in McMurdo yesterday, Dec. 2nd, 2009, at about ~14:00 after a 5 hour flight". You can visit the official ANSMET site, and read the blog here. Today's update is the "Vortex of All Irony" - the ice machine located at McMurdo, the US Antarctic research station!
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| 09/11/29 - Ulster Museum Meteorite Display |
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An excellent new meteorite display was opened at the Ulster Museum in October. Thanks to Mike Simms, Curator of Palaeontology for providing the image here and one for our December Image of the Month. In addition to the meteorites pictured Mike tells us you can also see "an etched Gibeon, huge Allende, and a half kg slice of Esquel, plus a 113kg Gibeon on open display and, elsewhere in the museum, a 3.45kg Seymchan pallasite slice. Entry to the museum is free.". Definitely worth a visit! |
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| 09/11/28 - Meteorite Magazine |
BIMS member Aubrey Whymark has had his excellent article "Australasian Tekties: Near and Far" published in the latest issue of Meteorite magazine (November 2009). In the article he aims to explain the formation of the Philippinite and Indochinite tektite morphologies. You can read more of Aubrey's work at his own website Tektites.co.uk.
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| 09/10/30 - Members Website Links Added |
Links to members websites have been added to the links page, click here to see them, our members are highly talented and knowledgable! All members are free to contact me and I'll add your site too. The Members Image Of The Month for November is also uploaded, a choice 43.4g Allende from Angus Self, click here to see it. Can I remind all our members that your submissions for the image of the month are always welcome.
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| 09/10/10 - Meteorite Classification Quiz |
Dr. Jeff Grossman posted this excellent quiz to the Meteorite Central mailing list earlier this week. It asks you to classify meteorites based on their images in the Encyclopedia Of Meteorites. If you missed it then click here to take the quiz.
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| 09/09/29 - October Image Of The Month Is Up |
A new Members Image of The Month is up for October in the Gallery. Thanks this month to Martin Goff who provided a photograph of his amazing 4.7g Wold Cottage crusted part-slice. This is our sixth image of the month, check them all out in the Image of the Month Archive.
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| 09/09/17 - Beddgelert 60th Anniversary |
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The Beddgelert meteorite, notable for being one of only two recognised meteorites from Wales, fell through the roof of the Prince Llewelyn Hotel 60 years ago on 21st September. For more information see the article on the BBC news site here or the Daily Post here. |
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| 09/09/05 - Fireball Spotted In Ireland |
A fireball was seen over Ireland on Wednesday night, you can read a brief article about it here or on the BBC news site here. If you saw it we would like to hear from you, please contact us with your reports.
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| 09/08/30 - September Image Of The Month Is Up |
A new Members Image of The Month is up for September in the Gallery. Thanks this month to John C. McConnell who provided this great shot of his Bovedy part-slice. Remember you can see this and previous months images in the Image of the Month Archive.
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| 09/08/21 - Rob Elliott Meteorite Collection Auction Article |
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I expect you are all aware that Rob Elliott's meteorite collection was auctioned at Lyon and Turnbull (Edinburgh) on Tuesday 18th August 2009. The event attracted a great deal of interest from all over the world. BIMS member Angus Self attended and was good enough to provide an article on the event for the BIMS website. Click here to read the full article and check out the photographs. |
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| 09/08/19 - New British and Irish Meteorites Section |
A new major section devoted to all the confirmed British and Irish meteorites has been added to the website. Click here to be taken straight there or click 'British and Irish Meteorites' on the main menu to the left.
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| 09/08/04 - New Mars Meteorite Discovery |
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The Opportunity rover has discovered a new potential meteorite on the surface of Mars. You can see the images and read about it on SpaceFlightNow.com. Image credit: NASA/JPL. 09/08/07: This rock has now been confirmed to be a nickel-iron meteorite. It has been called "Block Island" and is about two feet across. A 3D anaglyph image is available here, remember to check the full resolution image link at the bottom of the page. |
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| 09/08/01 - August Image Of The Month Is Up |
A new Members Image of The Month is up in the Gallery thanks to Mark Crawford. I've also added a few more educational sites to the Links page.
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| 09/07/07 - Natural History Museum on PSRD |
The Planetary Science Research Discoveries site (PSRD) has published an excellent article on the Natural History Museum, London. The article includes images of Barwell (including a basalt clast) and Wold Cottage among others. You can read or download the full article here.
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| 09/07/06 - Ensisheim 2009 |
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The annual Ensisheim Meteorite Show ran from 19th - 21st June this year. Peter Davidson of National Museums Scotland attended and has written an article on the experience for this site and a future issue of Flowlines. You can view the article here. If any other BIMS members would like to submit an article for the website I'd love to hear from you! 09/07/13 - Peter has provided additional images which have been added to the bottom of this article. Check out some of the rocks from the NMS collection exhibited at Ensisheim, including Mauritius and Strathmore. |
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