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Shoemaker got a plaque
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Rich, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
For what he proved at that site, he deserved a plaque. Gary Hand RichA wrote: I never knew about this. http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=13598760 |
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On Tue, 24 May 2005 04:17:29 -0400, RichA wrote:
I never knew about this. http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=13598760 Gene Shoemaker also gets some recognition for his work in identifying the valley around (Ries Crater) Nordlingen, Germany as a meteorite crater. The Rieskrater-Museum Nördlingen in the town of Nordlingen -- located on Eugene-Shoemaker-Platz -- commemorates the finding. The museum's web site at http://www.rieskrater-museum.de/ doesn't say anything about Shoemaker (or much else) so I've posted a few images I took in 2003 at the URL's below. The view from the top of the church tower shows the town with the crater wall in the distance. The crater is virtually round and its wall is still apparent in all directions. The walls of the church seen in one shot are made from a common building material in Nordlingen and is a hard stone produced by the heat of the impact. I understand meteorite flecks are sometimes found in the church walls as well. There are also photos of the Eugene-Shoemaker-Platz sign, some information about and photos of Shoemaker that's posted in the museum and one candid shot of the intrepid meteorite crater investigator studying another common local material for signs of extraterrestrial origin. Photos (without explanations) are at: http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen1.jpg http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen2.jpg http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen3.jpg http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen4.jpg http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen5.jpg Mike Simmons |
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Well, I KNEW that sure looked familiar...
Nordlingen is not far from Ansbach, where I spent some time flying around in helicopters in the Army for a while after I returned from sunny South Vietnam in 1968... Sadly, I haven't been back to Bavaria since... LOTS of stuff in those pictures that looked familiar. And sure miss the little mom & pop bar & restaurants, like Guenther's in Ansbach... They really made me feel at home there... Too bad I didn't know about THIS while I was there... Instead, I would go to Rothenberg, not much further away... -- Jan Owen To reach me directly, remove the Z, if one appears in my e-mail address... Latitude: 33.662 Longitude: -112.3272 "Mike Simmons" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 24 May 2005 04:17:29 -0400, RichA wrote: I never knew about this. http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=13598760 Gene Shoemaker also gets some recognition for his work in identifying the valley around (Ries Crater) Nordlingen, Germany as a meteorite crater. The Rieskrater-Museum Nördlingen in the town of Nordlingen -- located on Eugene-Shoemaker-Platz -- commemorates the finding. The museum's web site at http://www.rieskrater-museum.de/ doesn't say anything about Shoemaker (or much else) so I've posted a few images I took in 2003 at the URL's below. The view from the top of the church tower shows the town with the crater wall in the distance. The crater is virtually round and its wall is still apparent in all directions. The walls of the church seen in one shot are made from a common building material in Nordlingen and is a hard stone produced by the heat of the impact. I understand meteorite flecks are sometimes found in the church walls as well. There are also photos of the Eugene-Shoemaker-Platz sign, some information about and photos of Shoemaker that's posted in the museum and one candid shot of the intrepid meteorite crater investigator studying another common local material for signs of extraterrestrial origin. Photos (without explanations) are at: http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen1.jpg http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen2.jpg http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen3.jpg http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen4.jpg http://www.mssimmons.com/Nordlingen5.jpg Mike Simmons |
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