[meteorite-list] Noerdlingen - Ries

From: ted brattstrom <volcanoted_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:27:24 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1310966844.57135.YahooMailClassic_at_web125902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Aloha -

I Heartily endorse a visit to Noerdlingen / the Ries Krater - and while you are at it, Steinheim isn't far away...

spend the time to go to the top of the Daniel, visit the RiesKrater Museum (at 1 Eugene-Shoemaker-Platz), and walk the walls around the city - (At one of the gates, look out for the Oompa Loompas! - In classic form, I only realized where that scene of the movie was shot when I got home)

After you do the city, tour the crater - A day with a car will get you to the main sites, and probably only get you lost a little. Polsingen is the only tricky place, I had to go back on the second day.

LOTs of the old buildings in the town and in the crater are built of suevite, as is the Daniel and much of the town walls.

Many of the Suevite / Bunte Breccia quarries are open to visit, with signs saying, please only take a little, leave some for others to enjoy!


Here's some pics from my 2003 trip

http://kauscience.k12.hi.us/~ted/Craters/ries.htm


Here's the Steinheim part...

http://kauscience.k12.hi.us/~ted/Craters/steinheim.htm


Aloha - ted


--- On Sun, 7/17/11, Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net> wrote:

> From: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
> Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 12:00 PM
> N?rdlingen, Bavaria? Hey guys, here
> is some "official" stuff: http://www.noerdlingen.de/ISY/index.php?get=276
>
> If you go there to visit the place, you will be fascinated!
> There is a guy on the so-called "Daniel" church tower
> shouting out some few old words every evening at the full
> hour, and if you climb the "Daniel" at daytime you will be
> rewarded by a good view of the Ries crater rim on clear
> days.
>
> And, of course, don?t forget to visit the Rieskrater
> museum right there in town - very nice!
>
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:28:18 -0400
> > Von: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
> > An: nakhladog at comcast.net,
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta
>
> > Hey Rob
> >
> > No way I'm wrong about the Oompa-Loompas living secretly at Ries
> > Crater!? They absolutely do according to the original movie :"Charlie
> > and the Chocolate Factory".
Received on Mon 18 Jul 2011 01:27:24 AM PDT