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- The view from outside our marquee before the beginning of the solar eclipse.
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- Our meteorite display a few minutes before the doors opened.
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- My UK meteorite collection and some impactites.
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- As with the last few displays we have done, Chelyabinsk specimens were always of interest to visitors.
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- Specimens from Luther’s collection housed in some rather nice vintage wooden cabinets.
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- Our meteorite information sheets were given out to many many visitors.
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- Some of Graham’s collection including some hugely impressive Lunar and Martian specimens.
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- A nice backlit slice of Esquel on Graham’s table.
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- A special guest at the event was ESA astronaut Paulo Nespoli.
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- A model of the Solar Orbiter, an ESA mission in collaboration with NASA.
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- A mock up of the Martian surface with controllable Mars rovers set up by the University of Leicester.
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- The first visitors starting coming in just after we finished setting up our display.
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- The daytime session was filled with school groups who amazed us with their knowledge.
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- We were kept very busy all day 🙂
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- If you get to hold a piece of the Moon or Mars then you must get a photo of it!
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- The Martian surface recreated in a marquee at Leicester Racecourse.
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- Visiting school groups were greeted by an astronaut 😉
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- We enjoyed clear skies in Leicester and visitors enjoyed the stunning sight of an amazing partial solar eclipse.
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- What an amazing sight!
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- Graham observing the Moon crossing the Sun whilst holding a piece of the Moon 🙂
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- The BBC had printed guides available for visitors to learn about the eclipse.
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- The partial solar eclipse as seen from outside our marquee.
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- Even the youngest visitors got to touch the meteorites 🙂
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- That smile say’s it all! 🙂
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- Open mouthed in awe and wonder 🙂
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- School children of all different ages were fascinated by our display.
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- Form an orderly queue 🙂
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- Whose turn is it next…………
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- Hands up who wants to hold a piece of Mars?
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- A piece of the once molten core of a large asteroid, Wow!
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- This lady was a geologist and so had plenty of questions to test our knowledge.
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- Luther’s son Max was helping us out for the day but here he is taking a break watching ‘Fireman Sam’ 🙂
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- Luther doing his thing showing off some Chelyabinsk ‘Binsk berries’
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- The venue was split into different zones with different activities happening in each area.
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- The ‘Launch Pad’, our home for the day.
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- The surface of Mars, only a few feet away from our display.
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- Luther and Max with the Solar Orbiter model.
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- Max having a go at controlling a Mars rover 🙂
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- Our re-arranged display ready for the evening session.
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- Fancy having a go at controlling a Mars rover?
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- Working Mars rover model.
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- Working Mars rover model with piece of Mars on top 🙂
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- Graham, a chunk of Mars and the Exo Mars rover 🙂 The ExoMars rover has been designed and built in the UK and is due to be launched in 2018.
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- Leicester Racecourse proved to be an excellent venue.
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- The stage during the afternoon break, only an hour after this was absolutely packed.
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- Graham with a genuine astronaut space suit.
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- An astronaut’s space suit holding a piece of the Moon.
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- Space suit and space rock! 🙂
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- Graham with a captivated audience.
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- One of our visitors holding a stone and an iron meteorite in each hand.
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- Visitors enjoying the University of Leicester stand with some Mars rovers to play with.
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- Max having a break from meteorites – Copyright – Luther Jackson
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- We were very impressed with the organisation of the event by the BBC. Considering the number of visitors it went very smoothly indeed.
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- Getting hands on is always best to show off particular aspects of meteorites (Photo courtesy of BBC Stargazing Live)
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- A few of our specimens on our display tables (Photo courtesy of BBC Stargazing Live)
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- Graham and myself in full flow (Photo courtesy of BBC Stargazing Live)