http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: meteorites - Recent Posts en Thu, 21 May 2026 16:25:52 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18260#post-264138 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:50:29 +0000 cb 264138@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"Three landed in fields and one crashed through the roof of a cottage"</em></p> <p>The picture of the cottage that appeared in the papers was doctored to show the hole because by the time the journalist turned up it had already been fixed.</p> <p>EDIT: Actually, looks like it was Henry Coates, curator of the Perthshire Museum of Natural History who did the doctoring. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18260#post-264096 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:56:18 +0000 gembo 264096@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@klaxon, lucky you saw it but also lucky it missed the nuclear power station? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18260#post-264092 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:35:09 +0000 Klaxon 264092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>About five or six years ago, at 3-4am, I saw a similar green fireball fall from the sky over the A1 near Torness. For a couple of seconds it lit the landscape as daylight would.</p> <p>I can only assume the fragments of this one were lost at sea and being the time of day it was I found no reference at all to it online. Absolutely stunning moment. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18260#post-264089 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:31:21 +0000 neddie 264089@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cool. Thanks for sharing </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18260#post-264083 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:56:16 +0000 Cyclingmollie 264083@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks unhurt, I will try to make it along to that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18260#post-264082 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:46:35 +0000 chdot 264082@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/pieces-of-strathmore-meteorite-to-be-reunited-after-100-years-1-4591550" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/pieces-of-strathmore-meteorite-to-be-reunited-after-100-years-1-4591550</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18260#post-264038 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 01:52:02 +0000 unhurt 264038@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Around 13:15 on 3 December 1917 scores of people, from Northumberland to Aberdeenshire, saw an unusually bright, fiery mass streaking through the sky. A loud explosion was heard and four fragments fell to earth between Coupar Angus and Blairgowrie in Strathmore. Three landed in fields and one crashed through the roof of a cottage. These four pieces were all recovered and collectively became known as the Strathmore Meteorite."</p> <p>Opening on Friday 10 November at the National Museum of Scotland, this small display will reunite the four fragments of the Strathmore Meteorite for the first time since it fell to earth 100 years ago. Down to Earth will bring together eyewitness accounts, documents and newspaper articles telling the human story of this out-of-this-world occurrence.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nms.ac.uk/downtoearth" rel="nofollow">https://www.nms.ac.uk/downtoearth</a> #DowntoEarth </p>