Ben Alder meteorite
 

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Ben Alder meteorite

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Keep an eye out for a dark rock fragment if you are out and about on Ben Alder. Should be super easy to spot...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4rmkvr430o

To be fair they do acknowledge it might be a bit of a long shot.


 
Posted : 12/09/2025 12:56 pm
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Aye, cos Ben Alder summit has so few other rocks on to assist with spotting them.... 😉


 
Posted : 12/09/2025 1:07 pm
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Not so much a needle in a haystack, as a needle in a stack of needles


 
Posted : 12/09/2025 1:50 pm
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If only it had left a W3W address. Bloody thoughtless, these alien artefacts! (mutter, grumble, moan…).


 
Posted : 14/09/2025 1:32 am
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That looks like a slice of stornoway black pudding. I doubt it would survive re entry 


 
Posted : 14/09/2025 4:40 am
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(mutter, grumble, moan…).

I just typed that into W3W and the closest match is mutter.grumble.moon. Which is in Arkansas.
#fascinatingfact

From the BBC article:

"If someone is lucky enough to bag a meteorite while bagging a Munro, we're asking them to take a photo and take a note of their GPS location and send it to the UK Fireball Alliance."

How cool would it be to have that as your job title?!
What do you do?
Oh I work for the Fireball Alliance.


 
Posted : 14/09/2025 8:27 am
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Hadouken being the standard greeting at the fireball alliance AGM.


 
Posted : 14/09/2025 8:42 am
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To be fair they do acknowledge it might be a bit of a long shot.

I like what you did there, maybe millions of km in a year  😉 

 


 
Posted : 14/09/2025 2:17 pm

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