Rocks from space picture of the day

[msg-meteorites]

A rather amusing RFSPOD posted earlier today!

(http://www.rocksfromspace.org/July_7_2011.html)


Thats 2 RFSPOD postings you have appeared in recently Graham, good on you!

Cheers all

Martin

[Barwellian]

Thought it was very funny when Dave spotted the bank sign and made me get the cast out for the photo.
A pity the real thing was not on display.
That was a good day out.

Cheers,

Graham

[David Entwistle]

Thought it was very funny when Dave spotted the bank sign and made me get the cast out for the photo.
A pity the real thing was not on display.
That was a good day out.

Excellent picture.

I wonder if York Museum would be receptive to a little gentle encouragement to put "Middlesbrough" on permanent display, or allow it to be loaned elsewhere where it could be on display once again? I appreciate it didn't make it to the top slot in their recent poll, but it's not exactly something that you could see anywhere else.

[Barwellian]

There is an allocated display (although not very inspiring) with a dome to hold the meteorite, but the curators were saying that it has not been returned to it after it's trip north recently because it needed repair work or something similar. We had fun taking pictures of us all holding the cast next to the case as if we had removed it somehow

[msg-meteorites]

What they said during our visit is that they just need a new mounting and display dome and then it will be back on display. They have a display space already laid out for it just its not actually displayed there. We were a bit dissapointed with the actual display as it didnt really do the meteorite justice at all. Here are some photos of us holding the cast in front of the empty display:

Was a fun day!