Moscow Planetarium Meteorite Exhibition

[David Entwistle]

As reported in several places, Moscow Planetarium have revamped their meteorite exhibition. Their news release (in Russian) is here. There are some nice pictures here and here and videos here and here.

Anyone fancy trying to name the heavyweights?


Image from Moscow Planetarium forum.

[David Entwistle]

The Moscow Planetarium have provided a forum posting which appears to identify the suspects.

Heavyweights (annotated).

1. Seymchan (Сеймчан) see also:

http://web.ru/db/meteorites/card.html?id=10976
http://www.meteoritics.ru/note/Seymchan.pdf

2. Kharabali (ХАРАБАЛИ) see also:

http://meteoritics.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4999&sid=7885560fb0b4c0ba5d5c9a471df10bdf

3. Dronino (Дронино) see also:

http://www.meteorites.ru/menu/encyclopaedia/dronino1.html
http://www.museum-21.ru/trips/dronino.html
http://kamnisneba.ru/blog/Poezdka-za-meteoritom-Dronini

I have to say, I thought "2" was Tsarev (Царев)

http://www.meteorites.ru/menu/description/tsarev.html

[David Entwistle]

Another view of that large Seymchan, from the Moscow Planetarium forum....

[msg-meteorites]

Now that is a stunning meteorite! Truly beautiful I would need a bigger cabinet but that would look great as the centrepiece of my collection

Cheers

Martin

[Barwellian]

or a great coffee table

[KenONeill]

Incredible meteorite

[David Entwistle]

In another forum posting today, Moscow Planetarium show some more of their meteorite collection...