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Today, Friday, April 30, 2010 the Natural History Muesum in Bern (Switzerland) opens a new exhibition about Meteorites from
Oman. Here are a few pictures.
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| Part of the new exhibition with visitors. |
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| Nine expeditions brought over 5400 meteorites, a total of about 4.5 tons from 580 different falls. |
Meteorite research - Why?
In the daily life, meteorites play a side role. Meteors
that we observe - making a wish - are sand grains from space. Big meteorite falls and huge fireballs are very rare. Meteorites
are popular in science fiction and disaster films.
Many people are fascinated by meteorites: Scientists research the history of the begining of our solar system with
the help of those exotic extra terrestrials and a committed group of collectors from all over the world is contributing highly
interesting material to science.
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| Important tools: GPS and maps. |
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| Beautiful Diogenite found in 2009. |
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| Diogenite Ramlat as Sahmah: close up. |
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| SaU 264: LL6 chondrite, heavily eroded by wind. Fell about 30,000 years ago. |
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| Shisr 043: the only iron meteorite from Oman! |
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| The famous Lunar meteorite: SaU 169. Fell about 12,000 years ago. |
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| Sayh al Uhaymir 169: close up. |
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| Jiddat al Harasis 404, eucrite, likely from asteroid Vesta. |
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| It's not always a meteorite: camel droppings, wind polished limestone, litter,... |
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| SaU 001: L4-5 chondrite, only slightly weathered. Fell about 5,000 years ago. |
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| Dr. Beda Hofmann (left), leader of the search expeditions in Oman and Mr. Marc Jost (Space Jewels). |
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| Meteorites from the Jiddat al Harasis 073 strewn field. |
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| Ramlat al Wahibah 027: Chondrite H5. Fell about 37,000 years ago. |
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