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Another Barwell Meteorite Anniversary event

Postby Barwellian » Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:59 pm

Just found out about this...organized by the Church in Barwell...should be worth a visit. December 12th at the Parish Church...all day event featuring Barwell meteorites.
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Re: Another Barwell Meteorite Anniversary event

Postby David Entwistle » Tue Nov 17, 2015 4:36 pm

Excellent. This has got a mention in The Hinkley Times.

The biggest chunk of Barwell’s famous meteorite will be landing back in the village for one day only to mark the 50th anniversary of it falling to Earth.

Barwell Methodist Church will be hosting the renowned piece of space rock on Saturday December 12 from 10am.

Experts from the National Space Centre in Leicester will be on hand to explain all about the inter-planetary artefact which is believed to be billions of years older than the Earth.


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Photo from The Hinkley Times. Barwell Methodist Church minister the Reverend Andy Murphy is inviting villagers to come and see the Barwell meteorite, back in the village for one day only on December 12
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Re: Another Barwell Meteorite Anniversary event

Postby Lufha » Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:51 pm

BIMS also got a mention yesterday regarding this event on BBC radio Leicester.
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Re: Another Barwell Meteorite Anniversary event

Postby Barwellian » Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:31 pm

I'm heading over to meet the chap at the church on Sunday to suss out how to put on a display for it.

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Re: Another Barwell Meteorite Anniversary event

Postby Barwellian » Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:49 pm

I will be displaying meteorites at the event for the day if anyone fancies coming along to see where Englands biggest meteorite fell, some great specimens of it and help celebrate it's 50th Anniversary.

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Re: Another Barwell Meteorite Anniversary event

Postby Kieron » Tue Dec 01, 2015 9:21 pm

Hi Graham,

I am still hoping to be there.


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Re: Another Barwell Meteorite Anniversary event

Postby Barwellian » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:24 am

Hope you can make it Kieron...should be an interesting day talking with the locals...had one session last week after their church service in the coffee room and lots of keen folks wanting to make more of the meteorite etc in Barwell...eg help with a monument and making a permanent display.

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Re: Another Barwell Meteorite Anniversary event

Postby David Entwistle » Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:48 pm

Now also featured inThe Hinkley Times, with a mention for The British and Irish Meteorite society and an art competition.

Excitement is growing in the return of the Barwell meteorite which will be back on display in the village 50 years after it fell to earth.

Barwell Methodist Church will be playing host to the largest chunk of the space-rock, which smashed into the village near Hinckley on Christmas Eve 1965.

Now the property of London’s Natural History Museum, the meteorite is on loan to the National Space Centre in Leicester, whose curator Dan Kendall will be bringing it back to Barwell for one day only on Saturday December 12, from 10am.

Mr Kendall said: “Pieces of the meteorite fell all over the village, with fragments falling on the bonnet of a car, on a driveway, through a window and into flowerbeds but fortunately no-one was hurt.

“It remains the largest recorded meteorite fall in the UK and was highly sought-after by collectors - and still is today.

“It is estimated to be over 4.55 billion years old, which is older than the Earth.”

Members of the British and Irish Meteorite Society will also be going along, with displays of other meteorites, including a piece of the Barwell space-rock reputedly recovered after it smashed through someone’s roof.


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National Space Centre curator Dan Kendall with the largest known chunk of the Barwell meteorite which fell to earth on Christmas eve 1965
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