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| 10/03/04 - Meteorite Men TV Show in the UK |
Quest recently started airing the Meteorite Men TV series on Monday and Tuesday nights. This is the first time it has been shown in the UK. Quest is available on Freeview (channel 38) and Sky (channel 154). The full broadcast schedule is as follows (thanks to Andy for forwarding this information):
- Episode 1 : 22 Feb 2010 21:00 & 23 Feb 2010 22:00
- Episode 2 : 01 Mar 2010 21:00 & 02 Mar 2010 22:00
- Episode 3 : 08 Mar 2010 21:00 & 09 Mar 2010 22:00
- Episode 4 : 15 Mar 2010 21:00 & 16 Mar 2010 22:00
- Episode 5 : 22 Mar 2010 21:00 & 23 Mar 2010 22:00
- Episode 6 : 29 Mar 2010 21:00, 30 Mar 2010 22:00 & 03 Apr 2010 20:00
- Episode 7 : 05 Apr 2010 21:00, 06 Apr 2010 22:00 & 10 Apr 2010 20:00
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| 10/02/28 - Image of the Month Updated for March & Meteorite Magazine |
| A new Members Image of the Month has been uploaded for March. This time it's an unmissable 1046g (yes, you saw that right, over one kilogram!) slice of Seymchan pallasite. Check it out right now in the Gallery. Thanks go to Mike Simms for providing the image. Some of you may already have received the latest issue of Meteorite, "the international quarterly magazine of meteorites and meteorite science". It contains two articles by BIMS members. "The Rob Elliott Meteorite Auction" by Angus Self FBIMS and "Sharing the Enthusiasm" by Matt Smith. It's great to see the profile of BIMS being raised in this way.
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| 10/02/25 - BIMS Manchester Museum Visit |
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On 18th February 2010, four BIMS members were able to visit the Manchester Museum. We were allowed to view the entire meteorite collection with Mineralogy Curator Dr. David Green. The day was thoroughly enjoyed by all involved. I have put together an article, including numerous images, detailing the meteorites we were able to see and some history of the collection. You can view the page in our Publications section, or via the direct link here. |
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| 10/02/16 - More Museums Page Updates |
| Our British and Irish Meteorite Collections page has had several updates, with contributions from David Entwistle, Kieron Heard and George Wake. It now includes 21 museums with meteorite displays open to the public in the UK and Ireland. Currently the information on many of the collections is very vague, I've listed many as "awaiting further details". If you have the opportunity to visit any of the collections, please could you send me more information of the meteorites displayed. Images would be particularly welcome.
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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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