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| 10/09/05 - Possible Irish Meteorite Fall and Meteorite Magazine |
| A potentially meteorite producing fireball was observed in Ireland on Wednesday night, you can read more details in the Evening Herald. If you saw it, please contact us. For the first time that I'm aware of it seems you could even take bets on any meteorites found (Please note that BIMS does not endorse gambling in any way!). It is worth noting that a similar article appeared exactly 12 months ago (see the BBC article here), could it be that the Herald article has been "recycled"? Also, if you haven't already seen it, the latest issue of Meteorite magazine contains an excellent article on the Wold Cottage Homecoming written by BIMS member Martin Goff. Well done Martin. For anybody keeping count, this is the fourth article published in Meteorite by a BIMS member this year!
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| 10/08/29 - 74th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society - London
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The 74th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society is to be held next year in London. The date for your calendars is 8-12th August 2011. For more details see the official site here. Non-members are able to attend and we hope that a few BIMS members will be able to do so. Thanks to Kieron Heard for the news. The image of the month for September has also been uploaded. This month it's a thin section of NWA 5363 (Brachinite), one of the stones involved in the controversy regarding possible pairings with NWA 5400 the so called "Earth related meteorite". Click here to view the image in the Gallery.
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| 10/08/11 - Meteoric Falls Of The British Isles Book |
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Many of you will be interested to hear about the publication of "The Authenticated Meteoric Falls Of The British Isles" by James D. Robinson. The book was self financed and published by the author. Having received my copy today I can tell you that it is a truly professional publication. It is just over A5 in size and runs to 148 pages. Covering each of the British and Irish falls in chronological order from Wold Cottage to Leighlinbridge and very extensively researched. I'm confident in saying that this book is the most comprehensive single publication on the fall and recovery of these meteorites. The book costs GBP5.49, plus GBP2 p&p inside the UK. For those of you in the US, the total including shipping is US$15.60 at the current exchange rate. Those wishing to purchase from other countries should contact the author for shipping costs. You can order via mail, direct from the author at: James Robinson
10 BEWICK CRESCENT
NEWTON AYCLIFFE
CO DURHAM
DL5 5LQ. Paypal payment is also possible, please see the BIMS mailing list for those details. Please note that this book is not "officially" affiliated with or endorsed by BIMS, but we are aware that it will be of interest to many of our members. Thanks to Alastair McBeath for initially bringing this book to our attention.
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| 10/08/04 - Museum Updates |
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The Museum Collections page has been updated. Thanks to David Entwistle for information on the mysterious Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (Essex) meteorite. I've also added an entry for the Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, which I discovered yesterday has a small collection of meteorites on display. This entry includes a few photographs. The Pultusk is worth a look, as is a slice which I believe may be Knyahinya. Also thanks to David Entwistle I have added a further reference for High Possil to the British and Irish Meteorite - Scotland page. It's a link to an article in The Philosophical Magazine - Volume 18, published in 1804. |
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| 10/07/31 - Sussex Man Hit By "Meteorite" Update |
An updated version of this story has now appeared on the Telegraph ("Suspected meteorite was concrete lump that fell from passing plane") and Argus ("Mystery of meteorite solved") websites. Both articles mention Dave Harris (BIMS Secretary) and the British and Irish Meteorite Society. Dave has also sent Jan Marszal, one of the finders of the Sussex rock, an unclassified fusion crusted NWA fragment to help make up for any disappointment.
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| 10/07/29 - New Image of the Month for August |
Kieron Heard has provided the new image of the month with another famous British fall. This time it's a 1.1g fusion crusted part-slice of Wold Cottage (L6). Wold Cottage is a classic historical fall from December 1795. Click here to see it in the gallery. Nice!
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| 10/07/28 - Sussex Man Hit By "Meteorite" |
 | You may have seen the recent news story regarding the "Sussex man hit by meteorite" on The Argus website and elsewhere. One of the finders was kind enough to take the rock to BIMS secretary Dave Harris, who obtained the two images you see on the left (click them to see enlargements). As Dave posted to the BIMS mailing list this afternoon "Put your excitement hats away... it is, as you can see, a piece of Portland cement with brick fragments and flint within it". Disappointingly we do not have a new UK fall yet, but as always, watch this space! |
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| 10/07/09 - New Meteorite Blog |
Open University research fellow and meteorite curator Richard Greenwood has started a blog containing his "personal take on what's new and exciting in the world of meteorites". Follow this link to read Meteorites - The Blog from the Final Frontier. Thanks to Dr Diane Johnson for pointing this out to us.
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| 10/06/30 - New Image Of The Month |
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| 10/06/14 - Wold Cottage Homecoming - Part Three |
A few news items further down this page you may remember the story of the Wold Cottage meteorite homecoming. Martin Goff has written an extended article which can be viewed in this months IMCA highlights here. A further article has also appeared on the BBC website here which includes an interview with Dr Caroline Smith of the NHM.
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| 10/06/02 - Image of the Month for June |
| The Appley Bridge meteorite makes its first appearance as our image of the month courtesy of Kieron Heard. A 1.47g partslice with a great surface area, view it in the Gallery. Remember new submissions for the image of the month are always very welcome, meteorites from anywhere in the world are accepted! In "other news", the latest issue (May 2010) of Meteorite Magazine contains a print version of our article on The Manchester Museum, including images by myself and David Entwistle.
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| 10/05/20 - Middlesbrough Meteorite Video |
| Marcin Cimala (of Polandmet) has posted a number of meteorite videos to his Youtube channel, one of which is of a cast of the Middlesbrough meteorite. You may have seen images of this stunning oriented stone previously, but the video will really help you to appreciate it in three dimensions. Click here to see it. We have also added a section to the Links page for other International meteorite societies. We have traded links with Polskie Towarzystwo Meteorytowe - The Polish Meteorite Society, thanks to Andrzej Pilski. If you know of any other societies intersted in trading links please feel free to contact me.
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| 10/04/30 - May's Image Of The Month and Website Anniversary |
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It is the first anniversary of the current BIMS website, the official website re-launch was on 1st May 2009. We have come a long way in twelve months, just take a look around the various sections and see the amount of unique content available here. Thanks to all those who have contributed images and articles. The new image of the month is also uploaded. An enviable 20.5g Gujba partslice courtesy of Mike Simms. Check it out in the Gallery. |
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| 10/04/23 - Wold Cottage Homecoming - Part Two |
Martin Goff sent me a number of images of the Wold Cottage Meteorite presentation. I've put these together on a dedicated page, along with the text he posted to the Meteorite Central list last night. If you would like to see them, and listen to his radio interview, click here.
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| 10/04/13 - Wold Cottage Homecoming |
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On Friday (16th April) BIMS member Martin Goff is travelling to the Wold Cottage to present it's current owners, Katrina and Derek Gray, with a piece of the meteorite which fell there in December 1795. The piece going home is a 1.4g fusion crusted partslice which was generously donated by Dave Gheesling after Martin approached him and explained that the cottage did not have a piece on display for guests to see. The "homecoming" is generating some media interest, an article can already be seen in the Yorkshire Post here and more are sure to follow. Please note that the image shown here is not the piece being donated, but shows another Wold Cottage partslice visible in the Fernlea section of our Gallery. 10/04/16 - An additional article is available here.
10/04/22 - Further details, including images of the donated specimen and presentation, are visible on Dave Gheesling's Falling Rocks site here |
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| 10/03/31 - Image of the Month update for April |
| Kieron Heard has been good enough to submit a couple of images of British falls for the image of the month. This month it's a 2.99g Barwell part slice for view in the Gallery. Remember you can view all the previous images on the month in the Gallery Archive. Kieron also posted a link to the mailing list detailing the High Possil fall in 1805, I've added this link under High Possil, further reading on the Scottish Meteorites page.
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| 10/03/22 - Ebay Auctions Page |
By request I've added a page to the BIMS website which identifies Ebay auctions for British meteorites. The page comes with no guarantee that it will work correctly or that the auctions displayed are authentic! All auctions matching certain search criteria are displayed, these auctions are not endorsed in any way by BIMS. If you would like to use it you can do so here.
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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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