Click on any photo below to see all images in a slideshow. All photos unless otherwise noted are copyright of Msg-Meteorites
The main entrance to the North West Astronomy Festival
The Knowledge Observatory’s fantastic Astro Van
The festival flyer
The talks given throughout the weekend by invited speakers
From bare tables to meteorite display in around an hour 🙂
All set up and ready for the doors to open
A good selection of different meteorites on display
The first outing for our BIMS meteorites banner
A cast of the amazing oriented Middlesbrough meteorite with a cast of the impact that it made in 1881 when it fell
Some Beni M’Hira specimens along with the book describing the fall
Specimens of the Chelyabinsk meteorite. This event still held a lot of interest with visitors due to it being recent and so well documented.
An assortment of specimens on display
Examples of Stone, Iron and Stony-Iron meteorites in both indiividuals and slices.
And a little green alien holding my Camel Donga!
275 gram slice of Allende
My 93.5 gram specimen of Barwell with photo of original finder
A lovely slice of Zag showing nice brecciation
Some of my collection of UK meteorites
A selection of impactites
Our competition to win a nice NWA stone meteorite by guessing it’s weight
I gave away 85 small Campo Del Cielo specimens to interested visitors, they went down a storm! 🙂
Copies of Russell Parry’s Appley Bridge meteorite book for sale on our stand
Lisa Mather, a new astro firiendwho took plenty of video footage of our meteorite display
Nick Howes anjd Will Gater enjoying the meteorites on display
Visitors of all ages were eager to have a go at the guess the weight of the meteorite competition
Caught in full flow :- -) (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
The Tring Astro stand – (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
Nick Howes, David Galvin and Hayley Parr holding a circuit board from an Apollo Saturn V rocket
Nick was rather pleased with his latest acquisition 🙂
The Astronomy Q & A session – (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
A full house 🙂 (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
Jon Culshaw recited a poem as Patrick Moore – (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
Thomas, who was a repeat visitor throughout the day 🙂
The meteorite freebies were kept for those who showed a lot of interest, i still gave away 85 in total 🙂
Someone was happy with their meteorite freebie 🙂
Many of the recipients told me they would take their meteorites to school to ‘show and tell’
Another happy visitor to our stand 🙂
The freebies often generated more conversation and queations from recipients.
Helen Keen’s talk was the only one i could get to and it was very funny indeed 🙂
Paul Abel and Jon Culshaw enjoying Helen’s talk.
The finale to Helen’s talk 🙂
Sue’s son Joe Woolf entertaining the guests.
The hardworking Knowledge Observatory volunteers, receiving a well earned thank you.
The guest speakers being presented with their thank you gifts. Hand made…… One of a kind….. 🙂
Paul Abel and Jon Culshaw put on an astronomy themed performance with numerous impressions from Jon.
There were tears flowing during their performance! (copyright Nicolette Wells for the Knowledge Observatory)
Competition winner Dr. Stacey Habergham with her prize, an NWA crusted fragment weighing 160.g grams
