{"id":325,"date":"2013-11-06T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T10:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/?p=325"},"modified":"2021-02-21T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:57:55","slug":"meteorites-and-fossilised-rain-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2013\/11\/06\/meteorites-and-fossilised-rain-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorites and Fossilised Rain Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Digital Imaging Unit have been photographing the Gibeon nickel iron meteorite EUCM.110.759.\u00a0 This fell in prehistoric times in Namibia, named after the nearest town.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Made into tools by the Nama people. Analysed and confirmed as a meteorite in 1836. The wonderful pattern is called a Widmanst\u00e4tten pattern. We have also been photographing the Imilac stony iron pallasite meteorite EUCM.0647.2008 found in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile in 1822. The meteorites along with some amazing fossilized rain drops and various crystals will all feature in an exhibition opening in the Main Library exhibition space on December the 5th called Collect.ed.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Brown<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031342d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321 alignleft\" title=\"Gibeon nickel iron meteorite EUCM.110.759\" alt=\"0031342d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031342d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031342d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031342d-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031348d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-322\" title=\"Imilac Stony iron Pallasite meteorite EUCM.0647.2008\" alt=\"0031348d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031348d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031348d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031348d-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031353d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-323\" title=\"Lyell bead Rain Drops. EUCM.0107.2013\" alt=\"0031353d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031353d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031353d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031353d-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031355d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324\" title=\"Septarian concretion. EUCH.0343.2013.\" alt=\"0031355d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031355d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031355d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031355d-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Digital Imaging Unit have been photographing the Gibeon nickel iron meteorite EUCM.110.759.\u00a0 This fell in prehistoric times in Namibia, named after the nearest town.\u00a0 Made into tools&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2013\/11\/06\/meteorites-and-fossilised-rain-drops\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meteorites and Fossilised Rain Drops<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[69,68,92,94,84,95],"tags":[39],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2013\/11\/0031342da.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}