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Topic: New York - Renovated Hall of Meteorites Opens
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42986
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-15-2003 09:17 PM
   
The Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites at the American Museum of Natural History in New York reopens to the public on September 20, 2003. A six-month renovation has transformed this permanent hall into a cutting-edge, hands-on exhibition space. Using many never-before-displayed meteorites from the Museum's research collection, a new circular layout, colorful explanatory graphic panels, and computer animations, the Hall explores the origins of planets and our 4.56-billion-year-old solar system.Highlights include: -- Ahnighito, the largest meteorite on display in any museum in the world. This 4.5-billion year-old extraterrestrial rock is so heavy, 34 tons, that its supports go through the floor straight down to the bedrock beneath the Museum. -- Five extremely rare Martian meteorites, which are among the very few samples of that planet on Earth. These rocks were blasted off Mars’s surface by impacts and later fell to Earth. -- A three-foot cross-sectional scale model of Arizona’s gigantic Meteor Crater, which was created when a meteorite struck Earth some 50,000 years ago. Meteor Crater is the best-preserved impact crater on our planet. The Hall also features samples of the Canyon Diablo meteorite that formed Meteor Crater. -- A total of 130 meteorite specimens, including a section of a meteorite that hit a car in Peekskill, New York, in 1992, and the first documented meteorite to fall in the United States, in Weston, Connecticut, in 1807. |
Jurg Bolli
Member Posts: 977
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 09-15-2003 09:22 PM
Hi,
I have been to NYC a number of times, and I've never missed to see their meteorites. The museum is a fabulous place, the meteorites are great and well worth a trip. The only display that is nicer (IMO) is at the Smithsonian in DC, the nicest and most spectacular display that I have seen. I can't wait to see the new exhibit in NYC!
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spaceuk
Member Posts: 2113
From: Staffs, UK
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 09-18-2003 05:15 AM
I'd like see that exhibition/display of meteoritesDo you have a street address for the Museum please ? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42986
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-18-2003 10:03 AM
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192 |
spaceuk
Member Posts: 2113
From: Staffs, UK
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 09-19-2003 06:00 AM
Thanks Robert
Phill
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