Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Meteorite named after me or me named after a meteorite?

A meteorite is named after me! How cool is that? not! More like I'm named after a meteorite! How weird is that!? Either way, I still think it's weirdly cool.

Campo del Cielo (field in the sky)
Campo del Cielo is the second biggest iron meteorite that landed here on earth. If I remember it right, there are two types of meteorite; plain rock (the only thing that makes it more special is the fact that it comes from the outer space) and iron. The difference between the two is that iron meteorite is heavier than the rock.

 Actually, I've touched and carried a piece of this meteorite! An astrological association, Skyxplore, went to our school the day before yesterday and brought us for a tour around the outer space. First, they made us watch this actual documentation about spacecrafts. I saw, through the video, how the earth looks like from above the universe.  It was so crazy cool!! The earth really is spherical! I'm not saying I didn't believe the teachings of my dear mentors about how spherical the earth is and all that. It's just, it made me more believe and think more about how incredible the world is. I was completely, totally and utterly awe-amazed. Then on the next station, we were told some facts about the sun, milky way, moon and, finally, meteorites.

Then we were brought to the third station. The most fantamazing station. We went inside this dome and sat on the floor, cross-legged. Then we finally traveled to the outer space. We even went back and forward to time. We went to Jupiter  to the moon, get to have a glimpse of the milky way and visited all the other planets. It was so cool inside that dome! It was parabolic(as what dome should be) and the annoying thing was that, my clam-mouthed classmates', which is directly across from where I was seated, voices are totally audible to my ear. It's like they were talking so loud behind me. And I can't hear some of the commentator's words because of them! But all of that was dominated by my amazement on how all the stuff that is happening seems to be so real. Imagine yourself inside a dome. A dim-lighted dome. Then imagine images swirling around the dome walls. Planets, asteroids and meteoroids, twinkling stars and the splendor of the outer space.  it was indeed astonishing. At the end of the show, we were brought back to earth.  I almost didn't want to stand in my place.

So that was pretty much my journey to the outer space.

Sky

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