The British and Irish Meteorite Society

by **David Entwistle** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 1:12 pm

The Leicester Mercury report on loud bangs reported across the county of Leicestershire. It's a good excuse for a picture of the Barwell Meteorite....

Is that the National Space Centre fragment?

by **msg-meteorites** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 7:13 pm

Yes, that looks like the national space centre chunk. I wasn't aware until recently that it was so sizeable. Over 4kg apparently! :-)

by **David Entwistle** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 8:34 pm

msg-meteorites wrote:Yes, that looks like the national space centre chunk. I wasn't aware until recently that it was so sizeable.

Thanks. I recognize it now from Graham's report, from 2012....

msg-meteorites wrote:Over 4kg apparently!

Over 4 kg? That'll probably be the 1966,56 [4702 g] specimen then?

Do we think the largest fragment [7739 g] is held by NHM? I guess it must be.

Leicestershire: Boom County....