[meteorite-list] BIMS meteorite display at BBC Stargazing LIVE at Tatton Park

From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:30:19 +0000
Message-ID: <CAKEL=tBTGrQ5CG+i6uPnOjMqXwYR4wsQ1EdDs5Da_rp4Q4Q9Kg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Graham/Mendy,

I overestimated the weight slightly but otherwise was spot on :-)

Cheers

Martin

On 16 January 2013 21:28, Graham Ensor <graham.ensor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mendy,
>
> The 1.471kg Taza used to be part of Svend Buhl's collection....still
> on his website with explainations ...here...
>
> http://www.niger-meteorite-recon.de/en/meteorite_regmaglypts.htm
>
> and here.../
>
> http://www.niger-meteorite-recon.de/en/Meteoritensammlung_20.htm
>
> One of my favourites..
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Martin Goff <msgmeteorites at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mendy,
>>
>> I am sure Graham will oblige with photos and a better description but
>> its a beautifully sculpted and regmaglypted Taza of i would guess
>> between 1.5 and 2kg. It has a very characteristic shape with elongated
>> arms and one end of one of the 'arms' has been used as the end of a
>> hammer (one of the other 'arms' being the handle) and the metal has
>> been folded over and rounded over many years of use as an ancient
>> tool. It really is a spectacular piece :-)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 15 January 2013 21:25, Mendy Ouzillou <ouzillou at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Wonderful pictures! Thank you for posting.
>>>
>>> Would love to see a picture and background info of Graham's Taza artifact
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Mendy Ouzillou
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Martin Goff <msgmeteorites at gmail.com>
>>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:52 PM
>>> Subject: [meteorite-list] BIMS meteorite display at BBC Stargazing LIVE at
>>> Tatton Park
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just uploaded some photos of our BIMS meteorite display at the
>>> recent BBC Stargazing LIVE event at Tatton Park onto my website. There
>>> were 6 members of BIMS manning the display and it was non stop busy
>>> all night. Full of interested people fascinated by these visitors from
>>> outer space :-)
>>>
>>> (http://msg-meteorites.co.uk/meteorite-adventures/bbcstargazing-live-at-tatton-park-2013/bbcstargazing-live-at-tatton-park-2013-photos)
>>>
>>> Please take a look if interested:-)
>>>
>>> We also ran 2 competitions, a 'Meteorite or Meteorwrong' and a 'Guess
>>> the weight of the meteorite' which proved very popular. On that note i
>>> just wanted to publicly give a big shout out to some very kind folk
>>> who donated some fantastic prizes for these competitions. John
>>> Higgins, Dave Gheesling, Mendy Ouzillou and Tomasz Jakubowski, it was
>>> very much appreciated :-) Now i just need to wade through all the
>>> entries to find some winners!
>>> `
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
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>>> Martin Goff
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>>
>>
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